Mr. Chair, as I understand it, events typically occur locally first, whatever may happen—a flood, an explosion, or whatever—and then there's a process whereby successive levels of government are engaged at the request of the other levels of government. The municipality would ask for provincial help; the province could come to us.
Suffice it to say, though, that no one is sitting around waiting for the phone to ring on these. The reason we have a regional structure of emergency management personnel across the country is that they're in regular contact with provincial and, to a degree, municipal emergency management personnel, so that we can deal with this in real time and try to provide the assistance that is required.