Canada’s emergency preparedness must be built with communities, not just for them 

If resilience is the goal, then communities cannot be treated as liabilities to manage; they must be recognized as assets to mobilize.
Military personnel stack sandbags amid record flooding in Constance Bay, Ont., in April 2019. In recent years, wildfires, floods, ice storms, and public health crises have all made clear that readiness to respond must be built in advance, write Alexander Landry, Scott Cameron, and Simon Wells.

Canada will once again have an important conversation about civil defence, resilience, and preparedness as the annual flood and fire seasons approach. In recent years, wildfires, floods, ice storms, public health crises, and growing geopolitical uncertainty have all made one...

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