Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a few questions here. I’ll start with the emergency preparedness. The Minister heard a number of people, in their general comments, talk about emergency preparedness and our need to have capacity for communities and the government as well, but communities and the government to be able to deal with things that happen, either major items within the community but also on our highways which, unfortunately, we had evidence of in the last little while.

My first question has to do with staff, and we did have a larger complement of staff in the emergency preparedness section of MACA, and it was reduced. I can’t quite remember how many years ago, but certainly sometime in the 16th . Am I

correct? We have one staff person there now, and does the Minister see a need, if that’s the case, no matter how many staff we have there, for us to increase the number of staff and to bring our focus on emergency preparedness back up to where it was a number of years ago?