Foreign Affairs committee  Actually, the situation in Sri Lanka, sir, was managed by another division within our department, and it really did not affect our emergency management bureau.

Foreign Affairs committee  They could call our operations centre and we would contact the mission to find out if there was information available. That would be the system to be used.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's right, but managing the humanitarian relief efforts in Sri Lanka—

Foreign Affairs committee  There's a 1-800 number they can use to contact our operations officers and give them the information. If the Canadian citizen is registered, we would try to contact them through that means, or if the family had contact numbers, we would provide that information to our mission in Colombo, which would then try to contact the Canadian citizen on behalf of the family.

Foreign Affairs committee  Directly related to Sri Lanka, yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, it is.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. I'm Paul Roué, the director general of the emergency management bureau at DFAIT. I'd like to take a few minutes to tell the committee a little bit about the work that DFAIT does when it comes to providing assistance to Canadians in emergency situations abroad and how we are organized to deliver those services.