I was still there at the beginning. There were a number of plans put forward. One of them was to bring people in and put them in CAF bases, but then some fairly wise people said these people are being taken out of a war zone and they're scared witless at the sight of uniforms—it doesn't matter what the uniform is—so sending them to military bases was probably not the best idea.
Having said that, the military galvanized itself and had several bases ready to do it, but the system and the government of the day decided that, given where they were coming from, it was better to not use military facilities.