Is there a way to make this strongly typed using the System.Data.Entity.Include method? In the method below Escalation is a ICollection<>.
public IEnumer
This is already available in Entity Framework 4.1.
See here for a reference for how to use the include feature, it also shows how to include multiple levels: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg671236(VS.103).aspx
The strongly typed Include() method is an extension method so you have to remember to declare the using System.Data.Entity; statement.