Thank you.
I've listened with great interest. We have national emergencies and preparedness, regional emergencies and preparedness. We also have local emergencies and preparedness. I know that much of the discussion here has revolved around the federal and the provincial/territorial. There's a lot of stuff happening at the municipal level, and I know we've had some emergency simulation exercises in the area I represent.
We've also had the corporate sector do some very interesting things that didn't cost them a lot but have a major, significant, positive impact on what could be brought to bear in terms of resourcing during an emergency. That could be a local emergency or a regional emergency. I could even see it transpiring at a time when it could be somewhat of a national or multi-regional emergency. I'll describe one example.
We have a community of 5,000 people with its own airstrip that is part of a three-centre hub that has about 10,000 people. One of the major operators there is a helicopter company. They have redone their hangar and office facilities with geothermal, wind power, rain collection, and they can move their aircraft out and basically house the entire population that might be displaced. They've done all that with no reward other than good corporate citizenship. I'm just wondering if there has been any thought about how to maybe reward this kind of thinking or behaviour.
Have we even inventoried this kind of thing? Because I think it would be nice to know for any greater emergency planning, for any preparedness, where these facilities are.