National Defence committee  I was just going to say that final point as well. I think such a national resilience corps would probably work best if it were well supported by locally based community entities of some sort or another. That would open up this question about whether or not local authorities, muni

National Defence committee  I'll defer to my colleague's comments in response. Thank you.

National Defence committee  What I would add to that is simply that there is currently no restriction on the capacity of the provinces to establish their own response capabilities of whatever sort. Provinces will exercise jurisdiction should they see the need to create their own autonomous capabilities, and

National Defence committee  If I understand your question correctly, ma'am, the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence have a huge role to play in terms of emissions reduction, understood as climate mitigation. The majority of the Government of Canada's real estate portfolio is owned b

National Defence committee  What I would say is that I think if we recognize that the fight against climate change is in many ways fundamentally different than the fight against foreign adversaries is, then we might actually expect there to be different pools of prospective applicants for these two differen

National Defence committee  Yes. Thank you for the question. All I would add is to draw attention to what seems to be—I will use the term, if you will forgive me—the “dual use” nature of some of the tasks and training that such a climate core or resilience core would actually be equipped to perform. To Pr

National Defence committee  My colleague Professor Kikkert is the expert on the Canadian Rangers. I would certainly defer to him in terms of the overall assessment of the Canadian Rangers. I would simply add that most Canadians will associate the Canadian Rangers with the Arctic. They almost go hand in ha

National Defence committee  I'll just add something related to that. I don't know that the initial educational requirement for recruitment into the forces would necessarily be different if this was more mainstreamed as part of the mandate for the forces. I think the technical skills would obviously need to

National Defence committee  As currently configured in this country, the CAF's role is indispensable because, as my colleague Dr. Kikkert said, there is no other agency able to swoop in and provide these kinds of supports. The CAF is currently absolutely indispensable, but I certainly have been quite persua

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question, sir. I see a couple of big and important issues to address there. In terms of your point about federal versus provincial jurisdiction, I think that's a highly salient concern, but I would personally raise some warnings about allowing a kind of patch

National Defence committee  Good afternoon, and thank you for having me. I am honoured to be here, and I thank you for hosting this important discussion on issues related to climate change, security and the non-combat role of the Canadian Armed Forces. I am privileged to be speaking with you from the trad