Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for having me at the defence committee.
First of all, for the Red Cross, Conrad and Amy, I have to say thank you. Thank you for all you're doing.
On September 24, as a Cape Breton member of Parliament, I woke up to damage that I can only describe as overwhelming, with trees blown down over power wires, telephone poles down, buildings with their roofs ripped off and other buildings that had bridges run into them from the flooding and the high tides that just made the damage unspeakable. All we knew was that we needed help. We didn't know where that help would come from. When you wake up to that disaster, you have all levels of governments trying to figure out where to go.
For any leaders who have woken up to this kind of disaster, I'm wondering if you could give us this very compactly: What is the role the Red Cross plays in comparison to what the defence department does?
If you could do that in about two minutes, I would really appreciate it.