I would agree that your comment is a fair assessment, and I'm not talking constitutional anything, because that's not my bag.
As the EMO director, what I'm interested in is how the emergency management system works. You can get a lot of well-intentioned activity--and this has happened in Manitoba--where the federal government has come up with what it thinks is a very good idea and has gone to the municipality directly on an emergency management issue. All it has done is create confusion within the system, because emergency management is a four-pillared system. It only works if everybody knows who's who in the zoo and how it plays out.
There's some real value to keeping federal legislation talking about the federal perspective.