Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses who are here today.
My question is for Mr. Dupuis.
I'm concerned that the federal programs are not sufficiently structured for smaller municipalities and rural and remote communities to access them. It appears there's a lack of accessible funding for communities like mine, and I think like yours, in the disaster and resiliency funding. For example, it's a $1-million threshold for the DMAF to be triggered. That's an extremely high threshold for a small community like my own, in Haldimand—Norfolk, to meet if they need some sort of federal funding for adaptation—for example, for building or for what you described with ice and bridges, etc.
Could you please comment on what you are hearing and perhaps some of your experiences with respect to smaller municipalities? Are there any suggestions you have on how we could solve that problem?