Absolutely. This is an area where we would have expected much more to be done. We mention that the 2004 policy called for this. Certainly I think this issue became very real for people when we saw what happened on September 11, when there was that lack of ability to communicate between the first responders. This is an area where I think it's reasonable to expect there would have been more work done on common standards that would have been agreed to with the provinces and the municipalities. Given the fact that the department didn't spend a third of its budget in the last two years, there certainly were resources that could have been made available to encourage this project and move it along.
On November 4th, 2009. See this statement in context.