Mr. Chairman, this certainly is an area of concern and it's something that falls under the responsibility of this department, Municipal and Community Affairs, and we do have emergency measures plans with every municipality.

We request that the municipality review the plans on a regular basis and update them as people change, councillors change, SAOs change. We also have a territorial-wide NWT emergency plan. We have a territorial emergency response committee that our government sits on. We also have representatives from the federal government. We also have people from the private sector. We have people that are involved in communications and different areas that sit on this committee.

We also work with the federal government under the Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada Committee. That's now headed up by a new Minister. Stockwell Day is the new Minister for this area. Through that agency, we deal with the Disaster Assistance Program, we also deal with the Joint Emergency Preparedness Program, and through the Joint Emergency Preparedness Program, we did fund and were able to secure some money for the highway rescue vehicle that was in Hay River. We also do a lot of emergency management and planning with the communities through some funding from this agency. So we have a full complement of emergency plans in our communities and at the territorial level, and we try to keep the profile of the importance of emergency planning through mail-outs, through brochures, through letters that we write to the different communities and try to keep this on their radar screen. So there are disaster assistance plans out there.