Mr. Speaker, I know that in the province of Manitoba we are lucky that we have a fleet of water bombers that are operated under contract by two different companies. We know that Minnesota has also sent up some aircraft.
There is no doubt that, as was mentioned earlier, there might be a desire to have surge capacity at a federal level. There is a moral risk with that too. If provinces see that the federal government has a large fleet of water bombers down the road under a new department or under the emergency preparedness ministry through public safety, would that mean that other provinces might not want to invest in their own firefighting capabilities? That moral hazard has to be weighed into the discussion as to whether the federal government takes over those types of assets rather than provinces—