For a number of years the Canadian Coast Guard, for reasons I'm not clear about and I don't think too many of us are clear about, has not been an integral member of the incident command system. It's been outside the incident command. It's been a bit of a satellite organization. We began discussions with the coast guard and government about three years ago about the fact that we felt it was important that it be reviewed as a policy. Indeed, it has been reviewed. The coast guard is now in the process of becoming an integrated part of the incident command system. Oil has recently been recovered from the Brigadier General M.G. Zalinski, the ship that sank in the Second World War on our north coast and has been seeping oil recently.The recovery was undertaken by the coast guard under the incident command system. That process is now under way. It required some funding for it to happen. The coast guard has embraced incident command now. We're not sure why that hadn't been the case previously.
On February 25th, 2014. See this statement in context.