I can respond to that. It is actually well developed and well understood at the provincial and federal level how the military is engaged. It is a one-stop shop through a PSEPC request. It is not a request from the province to the military directly; it goes through PSEPC. The province has to be specific on what it is asking assistance from the military for. It is either asking for aid to the civil power or it's asking for protection, which takes it into a completely different level. The system for making the request is well known and it works very well. As you said, in Manitoba we had the military in here during our flooding in 1997 and it worked extremely well.
On November 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.