I would like to take this opportunity.... If someone were to ask me, “Would you go for more?”, the answer is yes.
And what would it mean? First and foremost, I think it's recognition, and I hope the message here is clear with the committee, that in due time it is important that a strong signal be given to us that “Yes, you're entitled to act” and “Yes, we count on you”, because for us the machinery is immediately different. We feel responsibility. We feel it now, but it's more in doubt; it's inactive. That's the message.
And if you were to say, “Okay, what more is there?”, to come back to what I said earlier, we need to build that capacity; we need to build up those volunteers being trained to be able to deploy. We need also some infrastructure and some materials—pre-positioning of materiel, for instance—to make sure that when an event happens we are able to go for it.
If you were to ask whether we could make a suggestion around—I don't know—maybe paragraph (m) of clause 4, or somewhere in that area, where we're going from establishing policies and programs to conducting exercises, if in between we could strengthen the funding for those entities, including the Canadian Red Cross and local governments, I think it might be appreciated, and it would send a signal that preparedness is extremely important and that capacity in the sector is also expected.