Maybe I'll give two quick examples of what we did for the hurricane season this spring. It's only in the last two years that we developed a whole government contingency plan to assist provinces and territories, in this case, by and large, the eastern provinces for the hurricane. We developed a plan to identify federal resources that could assist provinces. We then worked, through our regional offices in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and Labrador, with our provincial counterparts to identify: these are the kinds of resources we think could help you, what are your plans, do they fit in provincially and municipally with the plans you have--to make sure we develop a plan that will respond to all the needs. The province is obviously taking care of the municipal needs, but their mandate is to make sure that all that is aligned. Our mandate with the province is to make sure we are aligned with the provinces. So it's all one system that is fluid.
On October 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.