Health committee  I know of a few departments that have done it. Frequently when we talk about plans, people say, “Well, you have plans, but what does it mean?” I've brought in the scenario that we prepared. We've put it on a website internal to the government and we've offered it to all departmen

Health committee  Yes, absolutely. The people we target with this are obviously the senior management group. You have a lot of people working, but until the senior managers are seized with the value of doing something like this, until the senior managers see that it leads somewhere and it actually

Health committee  That's a tough one. In terms of the evolution, what we would do if there's a 30% shortage is one thing, but 30% absenteeism is highly speculative and it would not happen tomorrow.

Health committee  To adjust, yes.

Health committee  Public Safety is.

Health committee  No, Minister Van Loan.

Health committee  What we have done is in the context of a committee that I co-chair. We have looked at how the machinery of government reacted to the H1N1 wave in the spring. We identified six or seven areas where we really needed to invest our time and energy over the summer.

Health committee  No, not really money, not in the context of the federal coordination and our own individual response. In the context of the Public Health Agency and Health Canada, it's different story; but from a structural point of view of the organization of the Government of Canada, there was

Health committee  Public Safety Canada has no expertise in providing guidance on—

Health committee  If there are not enough ventilators and there's a need to urgently purchase ventilators, there is a process that will allow that.

Health committee  Yes, we and Public Works and Government Services will work together supporting the needs of the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Health committee  I'm going to start a little lower, and I'll get to me, okay?

Health committee  The principle of managing an emergency starts with the individual, okay? Each of us has a responsibility to be prepared for something.

Health committee  I was trying to answer your first question, where you talked about the water treatment problem. So the individual, if they need assistance, they go to the municipality—

Health committee  Then the province, then the federal government. On the reserve, it varies from province to province. The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs has different arrangements with different provinces. And I don't want to speak for them, but I can tell you that over the last few we