The simple answer is absolutely yes. I would put it to you that, when you look at provinces that have a very strong EMO—I'll give you British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario as the prime examples—you see the Canadian Armed Forces used far less and called far less. Working in the operations centre, they can say what their special capabilities are, and normally we meet them by other means.
If we do mitigation, it has to be done on a national level, not on a provincial level. If you build a dike to stop the water from overflowing into your community, what you've done is you've packaged the water and sent it to the next community. You can't build mitigation for flooding one community at a time. It has to be a whole process. That applies to every hazard.
But, yes, you would see the Canadian Armed Forces required less if we did emergency management in our country, as the Senate standing committee in 2008 reported.