Citizenship and Immigration committee  To repeat what I said, absolutely the government recognized the recommendation and partially agreed with recommendation 2. As the member mentioned, Global Affairs Canada does have the lead for response to international crises, while it's Public Safety Canada for domestic crises.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Julie, do you want to speak to that?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I'll start off and then turn to my colleague Julie Sunday to supplement. Thank you for the very important question. It's a question that obviously partner departments and Global Affairs Canada have posed and, in after-action review, undertook to respond to, not only through internal review but also by responding to the recommendations that came forward from the really important work of this committee.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, with respect, I believe that question could competently be answered only by the Department of National Defence. I think that's an important question, but I don't feel we're in a position to—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madame Chair, my comment from the lead department on this would be that we are prepared to respond to very diverse situations around the world, and Julie can speak to that, but that will always involve a combination of tools. It's next to impossible—very unlikely—that one will always have the tool kit one would want at a given point in time.