National Defence committee  It's within 24 hours, for sure. It will take up to 12 hours to mobilize capability, then the flying time, and the drop into the site. That is very reasonable when you consider the requirements. We have to rig a special aircraft, get the crew organized. What's significant is that

National Defence committee  It wouldn't take any longer than 12 hours, depending on where we're going. It could be eight hours or less.

National Defence committee  The replacement isn't my portfolio. I will limit my comment to the fact that we have the Hercules and the Buffalo that need to be replaced. The aircraft are very old and very expensive to maintain. What they do serves our requirements, so we're looking to replace them. I can't co

National Defence committee  Small map, big picture, I guess. We do a tremendous number of medical evacuations, and those are in there too. Some of it is urban, some of it is a little bit offshore. It's the way it's depicted there, sir.

National Defence committee  Absolutely. That's complete crews. It's just a function of how long a shift it is until you're time-expired and then have to do rests. There's leave and all those sorts of things. So it's not a matter of moving one aircraft to a location. Even seasonally, it becomes very difficul

National Defence committee  That is correct. In fact, we do an international exercise called Arctic SAREX with Russia and the United States Alaskan Command. In the last one we did, we actually used MAJAID as the centrepiece, because they sort of identify this capability as unique and not unwanted. It's ju

National Defence committee  It's absolutely fair. I think it's part of our responsibility to provide the monitoring operational necessity. My mandate is to deliver a SAR service. It's our organization that determines there's a requirement to ship the resources or indeed to get additional resources. It's our

National Defence committee  The statistics that we showed you are basically from our database, but it's the rescue coordinating centres that tabulate those. They are tasked with that. Each incident generates a SAR report, and it's all captured in there. As I mentioned earlier in our briefing, sometimes it

National Defence committee  Thank you for the offer. Actually, the whole privatization of SAR has been looked at before—some portions of it, all of it, none of it—and the way it's established right now, with the network of players, the coordination centres, the dedicated units, I would speculate that the p

National Defence committee  There are two approaches to that. If we were to add additional resources, that wouldn't have much impact on the south, but it would have a significant impact on the costs associated with SAR. It's not inexpensive to establish a 24 and 7 operation given the training requirement an

National Defence committee  That's a reasonable question. First of all, establishing any 24 and 7 operation requires 5.5 or 6 crew and several aircraft, because you have to do recurrent training.

National Defence committee  The kits can accommodate shelter and things for 320, plus all the kit that I could provide in three Hercules, a wide-body.

National Defence committee  And as I mentioned, it's the only capability of any nation in the world that I'm aware of.

National Defence committee  Absolutely, sir.

National Defence committee  By and large, if you have the worst-case scenario and you place it in a very remote area, it's going to take a certain amount of time to respond. The transit time, the difference between the departure from my base and the actual crash site, may not be the determining factor in al