Thank you for that, sir.
I met, together with a couple of my colleagues who are also from the Fraser Valley, with Mayor Braun of the City of Abbotsford a couple of months before the flooding actually happened. Of course, we didn't know how devastating it was going to be, but officials there anticipated that there would likely be a problem with the diking system around Sumas Prairie and along the Fraser River. Estimates were about half a billion dollars for each one, to build it up to anticipated water levels and to upgrade them for seismic engineering. That's $1 billion all together and now we're talking $500 million to do the repairs.
Perhaps you could comment on that. Are we anticipating ahead of time to prevent future disasters and the expenses that go with repairing after a disaster?