Thank you, Mr. Chair. In addition to the answer provided by the Minister, following the 2014 wildfire season, we did do an after-action review out of that event. One of the major things as it relates to communications coming out of our analysis of that event is that we have worked very closely with corporate communications and the Department of Finance to establish a protocol around how communications would exist in the event of an emergency. Very clearly, until an emergency event occurs, communications for all of the respective mandate areas are the responsibility of individual departments. Using the example provided by the Member, the Department of Infrastructure would have responsibility for road notices or any of those kinds of things. Once an emergency event has occurred and we are in the process of declaring a state of emergency, then our emergency management organization kicks in under the territorial emergency plan, and it is then that organization which will coordinate communications on behalf of our government in an integrated consolidated fashion so that, when we are in an emergency event, we are speaking to one voice about all matters related to government services. So it really is, the trigger point or the key is, whether or not a state of emergency is declared at that point. That is when MACA would take the primary role in communications. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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