Madam Chairman, we did increase it as part of the $1.2 billion. It went to the defence budget. Some of that went to the office of critical infrastructure, protection and emergency preparedness. Of those provisions there was a $10 million increase over two years for equipment purchases for first responders with respect to chemical and biological response systems. The JEPP program is a contributory program by us and by the provinces and much of the programming is done at the local level by first responders.
We have also provided for $20 million over five years for the development of a national heavy urban search and rescue capability. This again is through the JEPP program. Quite obviously with the events of September 11, there is concern about any major disaster in an urban area, whether it is man-made or a natural disaster, which could involve heavy urban search and rescue operations. While we had already been doing some work in that area before, we have accelerated it quite substantially post-September 11.
Those are two areas where money that is flowing through will go to the first responders level. There will be other programs as well, for example, training programs where we work with the first responder community, which is largely at the local level, municipal or other local entity and agency, to increase the capacity to deal with either natural or man-made disasters.