I'm sorry, I didn't want to cut into your answer, but I actually think that the issue of mitigation and prevention are two different things when you look at earthquakes, looking at it from my perspective as a physician and having looked at public health over the long term. In the case of mitigation, it's having public building codes now in terms of an earthquake, but there are whole hosts of schools, for instance, in British Columbia that were built 30 or 40 years ago that aren't up to standard, and to bring them up to standard is going to take an infusion of money now. I want to hear people talking about that kind of prevention, not simply leaving it up to the fact that new buildings are being built with building codes. There will be children in those buildings, and when an earthquake is going to occur, you don't get a warning like they did with Katrina.
On November 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.