Public Safety committee  Do you want to answer on the CIP?

Public Safety committee  Maybe I'll respond from the cyber point of view. It's probably the best example, because within the Government Operations Centre is also the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre. It's a CCIRC, similar to those in four or five other countries. We are now, particularly over th

Public Safety committee  Maybe I can quickly answer that one. One of the challenges was that those whom the feds would normally help were no longer available. By and large, a lot of the first responders were dead or gone. So you didn't have a state asking to assist its first responders, because the first

Public Safety committee  We're not looking at that area, that I'm aware of. What we are doing, though, is making—

Public Safety committee  In the ones we've been involved in, just from an ops centre point of view, we haven't. But we have addressed that with the provinces. Most provinces have redundancy. They have regional offices, so that if one area went down, the rest could act. I think New Orleans was a very uni

Public Safety committee  In our operations centre we use the system on a regular basis to test the generators, so we have that. The phone systems as well have been upgraded so that the phones don't die. I think that was a major problem with the blackout. As well, we have a site that, although not ideal,

Public Safety committee  I can't remember the event when it happened, but there were special packages developed for members of Parliament that would give them information on the background. There are usually evergreen lines that are shared very quickly. Within the last two years there were packages put o

Public Safety committee  I think it's a work in progress. Depending on the province, a number of them have used software. I don't want to advertise any particularly, but Telus has E Team. It's been used by British Columbia for quite a while and is used extensively by Alberta. Ontario has their own soft

Public Safety committee  Earlier, I think one of your references, Mr. Chair, was to the urban search and rescue capacity. I believe there are five teams across the country. A lot of the funding has been federal, but there are municipal and local resources. There is an agreement with the funding and tra

Public Safety committee  It's the Jackson Building, at Bank Street and Slater Street.

Public Safety committee  I'll start off with the visit. When we became a new department, we inherited what was there. That didn't meet anybody's needs, so we just totally destroyed it. We have a temporary ops centre that's still there, but early November would probably be a great time to come back. You'

Public Safety committee  We deal with that as we deal with the provinces, and then it becomes their jurisdiction as to what they want to do with it.

Public Safety committee  If I went back to the shootings in the school in Montreal, it was very sequential, from the Montreal Urban Community Police Service, to the Protection civile in Quebec City, and from them directly to our regional director and to us. So I would say within a matter of—and I'm guess

Public Safety committee  That's pumped out from one to the other very quickly. In other provinces, we share the same software for event management, and they can enter immediately, at the provincial level, information that we can see right away on our screens.

Public Safety committee  Just the legislation that provides the leadership mandate and then the mandate to make sure that federally departments have plans that are all aligned will make a big difference. Right now, different departments have developed their own ways of responding. The coast guard respond