Thanks very much for that.
With regard to us and how much or what we're asking for, here we're trying to respond to the specifics of the bill. We have many recommendations—many very specific things that we are looking to fix, to put it that way. Our report details them, and we have probably 40 recommendations that we wouldn't want to take you through today. They're about coordination, funding, responsibilities, and training and exercises. There are a whole lot of things that, as I think you understand, we would be coming to the Government of Canada and the provinces and territories to amend or fix. That's why we want to be at the table. So the question here is being at the table.
What does a table look like? The really big table that we feel we need to have a formal role at would be that of the senior officials responsible for emergency management. That's where the senior officials of the provinces, territories, and the Government of Canada come together to really make those decisions, and we want to be at the table when the decisions are being made.
Now, there have been questions asked of the officials at SOREM and the ministers as to whether or not that's on. Our understanding is that from some provinces the answer has been yes and from other provinces the answer has been no, which was sufficient to prevent it at this time. But we would still like to have a formal role, along with the provincial and territorial municipal associations at that table. That would be the forum.
In the meantime, we'd like progress towards that. We have been invited to sit on the domestic group on emergency preparedness. That's relatively informal, but it's a good step. But it's not a decision-making body, so to proceed to SOREM would be the goal.