I'm happy to. I think there are colleagues in Environment Canada and the Canadian hurricane centre who obviously might want to comment on that as well.
I'll take a step back. Hurricanes are considered a cyclical risk every year in Canada. Every year in Canada the best scientific minds provincially and federally do a hurricane risk assessment. My group coordinates that piece of work with them, and we roll that up and it is presented and shared with ministers—the Minister of Emergency Preparedness in this case—in terms of the risk assessment. That's also shared with all provincial and federal colleagues in terms of the emergency management world. There is an annual risk assessment and that involves people like Environment Canada, the Canadian hurricane centre and the provinces as well in terms of their risk. That's up front and that happens every year.
What we do in my group is go out and meet with every one of the provinces—primarily the Atlantic provinces in terms of hurricanes—that are at risk and we discuss that risk assessment with them. We validate what they believe, whether it's true or false, and what their preparations are. Actually my group met with them individually long before hurricane Fiona hit, in June and July, when these hurricane risk assessments were published, and we talked to them about their preparedness for these things. Nova Scotia at the time was quite confident in its ability to respond as it tends to be one of the harder hit provinces obviously when we do get these hurricanes. The last big one was three years ago—hurricane Dorian—as you may recall.