Just the legislation that provides the leadership mandate and then the mandate to make sure that federally departments have plans that are all aligned will make a big difference. Right now, different departments have developed their own ways of responding. The coast guard responds one way, the health agency has its plan, and CFIA, for avian flu and those kinds of things. This brings it all together to make sure everybody can fit into that. It's a physical location, the Government Operations Centre, but it's the place where particular functions occur. It brings the entire federal family together so we can speak one language, which we didn't have before that.
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