Earlier, I think one of your references, Mr. Chair, was to the urban search and rescue capacity. I believe there are five teams across the country. A lot of the funding has been federal, but there are municipal and local resources.
There is an agreement with the funding and training that they will assist in national events. We saw in Katrina that the urban search and rescue team from British Columbia was sent down to Louisiana to provide some assistance. It was backed up then by the Calgary search and rescue team in case there was something that happened in British Columbia.
Of course, the Canadian Forces have the DART team. If we needed a large amount of assistance that was outside the Canadian capacity to provide, our door would be right to Foreign Affairs Canada, and we'd look to them to go into the international community with the needs that the province would have identified.
There is already at Foreign Affairs and through CIDA a database of different kinds of assistance that is available worldwide that they can call upon, and we are starting to build as well, in the very early stages, a national inventory of resources. In working with our provincial colleagues, though, especially for Katrina, the preference they indicated to us was for them not to continually update a database of potential resources within each province because it changes continually and it may or may not be available when you need it. Their preference was for us federally, if we needed help, to identify what it was that we needed and then they would do a staff check to see if it was available.