As the deputy spoke about, reorganizing ourselves to create a single window for indigenous communities is positioning us to be able to be more proactive and engage and meet communities where they are, with particular attention—I take the point—on smaller communities with less capacity. I would say there's no region that's cracked this nut. We wouldn't have this audit report if we had cracked it already.
I think there are best practices. We are learning now with this new organizational structure to share those best practices more consistently and quickly across the country.
For example, with the most recent impending flood in Peguis First Nation, we actually deployed people—not for a tour of the community, but to stay in the community—so that we could facilitate, coordinate and be more proactive in our active offer of service at the leadership level and with our engineers and technical staff. I think that region is showing that leaning in more proactively, as the Auditor General suggested, is helpful in meeting communities where they are and helping to fill the gaps.
Alberta is another region that is leaning in more proactively, as the Auditor General suggested we had to. The example there is funding emergency management coordinators. We have the best coverage for emergency management coordinators at the nation level to provide them with the capacity to do the planning we need for the responses they need to address increasing climate change-driven emergency disasters.
