That's a great question.
JRCCs can activate the Canadian Rangers to support aircraft crashes really easily and sometimes even marine incidents. They can potentially utilize the rangers as secondary search and rescue resources. That's pretty clear, actually. Issues are more with civilian partners, like emergency management organizations or provincial police departments, where there's a bit more confusion over how they can be used for things like ground search and rescue.
I will say—and this actually answers a question that came up about Trenton in particular—that Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Trenton and the 424 Squadron in Trenton have been doing really important work over the last few years in building the kinds of relationships with the rangers that you're talking about there. That's going to make them much more operationally effective.
I work with them frequently on something called the Arctic search and rescue exchange, which brings rangers down to JRCC Trenton to learn about how the JRCC works and how the squadron works. That kind of face-to-face relationship building to see what makes this process work better is absolutely the best bang for your buck. Get people together in the same room to work through these things to better understand one another. It's working really well.
Kudos to JRCC Trenton. JRCC Halifax has also being doing this on its side. These are really good models to build off of.
