The Quebec Regional Office (QRO) is moving forward on an initiative to improve emergency preparedness in First Nations communities. The initiative, called Cadre regional de gestion des crises et des mesures d'urgence (regional emergency preparedness framework), consolidates emergency measures assets and meets the demands of the federal Emergency Preparedness Act. As a result, the Guide to the Management of Crises and Emergency Measures in the First Nations Communities of Quebec has been published by the Regional Standing Emergency Preparedness Committee. The manual includes all measures for managing actual and potential crises." - INAC Express newsletter, v. 2, issue 13 (April 8, 2009).

Guidelines for developing and activating crisis management plans.

"On November 15, 2022, the Auditor Generals' report entitled Emergency Management in First Nations Communities-Indigenous Services Canada was tabled in Parliament. It issued a scathing review of government incompetence, fiscal mismanagement, and a failed approach to emergency preparedness and disaster mitigation ... The challenges faced by First Nations communities regarding emergency management, mainly the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, calls for real action to save lives and communities from the threats posed to them. Infrastructure "culverts and dikes to prevent seasonal floods" are imperative to the safety and well-being of any community, yet the department has showed complete ineptitude in this respect "--Background, page 28.

The rise and spread of Covid-19 in the beginning of 2020 presents a once-in-a-century challenge and opportunity for decision makers, managers, scholars, and citizens to understand the risks, mitigate its impact and prepare for future crises. Drawing on a global network of scholars, this book presents a comparative analysis of ten nations’ response to a global pandemic, while operating nominally under the framework of the World Health Organization. The book introduces the concept of ‘collective cognition’ as an analytic lens for examining the nations’ response to Covid-19 during the first six months of the emerging pandemic (January – June 2020) and draws out insights for improving systems of global risk management. This book addresses four primary audiences: policy-makers and leaders in nations struggling to contain viruses while guiding their societies under threat; academic researchers, students, and educators engaged in preparing the next generation of professionals committed to investigating emerging risk: managers of non-profit and private organizations that operate and maintain the networks of social, technical, and economic services that are essential to functioning communities; and the informed general public interested in understanding this extraordinary sequence of events and in managing the novel risk of COVID-19 in a more informed, responsible way.

In June 2001, the Government of Canada initiated consultations on a National Disaster Mitigation Strategy to evaluate, prioritize, and implement measures that reduce the vulnerability of Canadian communities to disasters. This guide is designed to encourage a deliberative dialogue on this Strategy. It includes a table of some Canadian examples of mitigation activities; discussion of the concepts of deliberation and disaster mitigation; facts & figures on some major Canadian disasters; and three approaches to a national strategy. These approaches (risk management; knowledge creation, dissemination, & use; and empowerment) are not mutually exclusive. For each approach, arguments for & against are outlined along with how their implementation might look in five years.