I certainly agree with you that there needs to be a capability within CAF. The question is how big.
I think one of the issues that arise.... If I recall correctly, your next witness is from the Canadian Red Cross, and as I said, increasingly the Prime Minister is saying he's sending in the army and the Red Cross. I think one of the questions that need to be asked is what can civil society provide in disasters? Can they provide hundreds and hundreds of bodies? No, they can't. Can they provide the sorts of things the Red Cross and other organizations provide better than the military can? They probably can.
To my mind, it's a question of somebody somewhere looking at the federal capability, the provincial capability and the capability of civil society as well.
Some people argue that we should go the route of the United States with FEMA, which actually has operational capability for disasters, but a lot of Americans would tell you that it's not the success story that some people think it is.