Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
The first couple of questions I want to ask are directed to the coast guard.
Mr. Grenier, you talked about the principle of escalation as we go up the steps of a ladder, I guess would be the best way to put it. You have the local, then other regions coordinating other resources, then international agreements on mutual aid and those types of things. What are the protocols for timing as to when you execute those steps of going up the ladder from local to regional to calling in mutual aid? Are there certain criteria you have with respect to the size of the spill or other criteria you have before you execute those steps?