Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Chief, I want to give you, as well as the mayor, the opportunity to speak a bit more in depth about the national fire administration. It seems to be the topic of your passion today with respect to trying to get this off the ground. Quite frankly, I agree with you. One point of contact is very beneficial to streamline a coordinated approach of relevant partners to any given situation.
Again, I've been in situations in the past where it was three o'clock in the morning and we'd have a ship coming into the Welland Canal with everyone on the ship sick, and we wouldn't know why. It was delegated to my fire chief versus Health Canada. It was very frustrating. Simply having that protocol in place before the fact, versus trying to deal with it during or even after the fact, would be beneficial.
May I first request that you submit to us the report you've authored, Tina—not you, but your association—so that we can enter it into the testimony? It would be reflected on the record, to be included with the final recommendations or the final report, and, therefore, with the recommendations the analysts will provide us.
That said, I'd like you to comment on the emergency management attached to local, provincial and national priorities, and the alignment of same. I know that's one of your priorities within the plan of moving forward with the national fire administration. I'd like you to talk a bit more in depth about that and your thoughts on how, especially in our case, it aligns with our jurisdiction over national priorities.