Governments and communities must develop civil defense capabilities
Reflecting on civil defense in the new geopolitical world in which we live is no longer a question, but an obligation. For decades in Canada, public safety has been built around an implicit assumption: major crises would be accidental, natural, or technological, but rarely intentional and even less existential. Floods, storms, power outages, pandemics. Serious events, sometimes dramatic, but part of a logic of risk management and a return to normalcy. This framework of thinking is not the result of chance. Unlike many European countries, Canada and the United States…