Thanks to the Minister. I’m glad to hear there is more than just one poor soul trying to deal with emergency preparedness. I’d like to encourage the department, in conjunction with the rest of government, to look beyond just communities in terms of emergency preparedness. I know quite a few communities have their own emergency plans, but when we have an emergency that occurs outside of a community, I think it’s been pointed out by a number of Members that we don’t have any policy, we don’t have any framework that people can rely on and that they can act upon. There are jurisdictional issues, all that stuff. I would like to simply encourage the Minister to talk to his officials within his department but also talk to other departments and seriously consider whether or not we should be looking at emergency, I hate to say the word policy, but something that will deal with emergencies that occur outside of a municipality – the elections office calls them hinterland – so when stuff happens in the hinterlands, we do have something that we can use to deal with those actions.

I wanted to also ask a question here with regard to 911. I wasn’t quite sure where it would go, but I presume it’s under public safety, and it’s basically to… I guess my question to the Minister is: Does the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs see that they are the focal point for assistance with any community or even if it’s the government that’s going to implement 911? Is MACA the focal point or does the Minister see that this would happen in another department?