Urgency needed to improve Canada’s emergency response

The Ready 2024 Conference focuses on whole-of-society solutions for the country’s emergency response operations.

Homeowners shore up sandbags around a property in Ottawa on April 30, 2019. We need to bring together our collective knowledge to better inform decisions and strengthen our communities to be more resilient to disruptive events, writes Conrad Sauvé.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CONRAD SAUVé

January 31, 2024

As we move squarely into a new year, the optimism of a fresh start is challenged by events throughout the world. The collective humanitarian impacts are profound, and it is no longer rational for people in Canada to think that emergencies happen to people in other places as ...

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