Canadian Emergency Management is something we are just learning about. We could really benefit from a volunteer who is capable and willing to help us curate this entire page (and champion the other sections within for additional CEMIR parliamentarian support)!
We started looking at the Emergency Response plans for Toronto in Ontario, and worked our way up to the Federal Emergency Management Response System in Canada. Only at the provincial level and above, is there mention of "situational awareness", but those plans place that role in the Operations Section:
In the provincial plan (is it the same template for all Canadian provinces? ), there is only one reference to intelligence (but its a good one!). Our emphasis was added:
The PEOC shall constantly monitor various sources of information for potential emergencies in the province. Other ministries may monitor for emergencies according to their own emergency response plans.
In some cases, prior warning may come from outside organizations that have access to scientific/technical methods of predicting floods, forest fires, and severe weather, or from intelligence and threat risk assessment operations. Where reliable prediction is possible, action can be taken before the onset of an emergency. Provincial Emergency Response Plan 2019, p. 56).
The Canadian National Emergency Response System does talk about intelligence (and intelligence sharing) a bit more, and does describe five initial key actions at the federal (and provincial?) level, which need to commence at the start of an incident:
As agreed upon by the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Response Working Group, the following key activities are common to all jurisdictions and identify fundamental linkages and functions that are complimentary to federal, provincial and territorial emergency response mechanisms:
From the Provincial Emergency Response Plan: https://www.ontario.ca/document/provincial-emergency-response-plan/6-emergency-response-and-recovery-activities#section-1
For now, we are organizing Canadian research and reports, aligned to the Ontario provincial plan. If you have better information for us, please contact us. https://files.ontario.ca/books/solgen-emo-provincial-emergency-response-plan-2019-en-2021-12-13.pdf
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again, if there's a better way to organize this section for Canada, please advise.
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EMINT impacts to Command and General Staff leads in Response/Recovery, besides EMINT
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Beyond the Response and Recovery impacts categoried above, there are other disaster phase cycle impacts - and non-disaster/incident or event impacts which need EMINT.
If you have something you wrote or researched, which you think might be appliable to EMI, please send the DOI link to us at emint@cemir.org. Thank you. * - above indicated authors are affiliated with the CEMIR
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