Under what you are proposing, it is as if we excluded emergency management activities from the responsibilities of provincial governments although I am sure that was not the original intent of the drafters.
I understand just how important this bill is for the federal government. We need legislation enabling the federal government and its institutions to take preventive measures and to deal with emergencies, whether they happen on a military base, in a nuclear reactor, or elsewhere. In fact, in Quebec's legislation, there is a part which deals with municipalities, but there is also another part which deals with every department, and which says that each department must have an emergency plan, just like this bill says that each department must have an emergency plan, in other words, it must prepare an emergency management activity plan.
Perhaps I am overly concerned, but if we add what has been proposed, the sentence becomes ever more complex and even more difficult to understand, whereas it was so simple and clear in its original version, as drafted by the legislative drafters.