Canada Disaster and Emergency Management Public-Private Partnerships - Fail or Win?
2018-2020 Action Plan
for Critical Infrastructure
This year marks the wrap-up of the 2018-2020 Canadian Action Plan for Critical Infrastructure. Action plans for enhancing the resilience of Canada’s critical infrastructure came into affect a year after Public Safety Canada published the 2009 National Strategy for Critical Infrastructure.
The 2009 national strategy highlights the importance of building a safer, more secure and more resilient Canada. One of the strategic objectives in the strategy is developing partnerships.
In the 2018-2020 action plan, partnerships continued to be a main objective, along with risk management (all-hazards approach) and information sharing. Overall, the plan hosts 33 deliverables with the majority of delieverables (16) under the objective of Implementing an All-Hazards Risk Management Approach.
Two deliverables that I am particularity interested in fall under public-private partnerships:
The Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada to develop and implement an outreach strategy for key resilience enhancement programs, and
Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada to engage with provinces and territories to identify ways to collaborate more effectively in the delivery of critical infrastructure programs, particularly the Regional Resilience Assessment Program.
I am interested to see what the final outreach strategy looks like and hear feedback from the provinces and territories on how Public Safety Canada is engaging with them.
Typically, the federal government either proceeds on provincial matters without engaging provinces and territories first or they tend to announce an initiative only days before it is set to launch.
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Author: Brad Ison is a professional disaster and emergency management coach. He’s held various position specific roles in the Alberta Provincial Operations Centre and had decade long career at the Alberta Emergency Management Agency where his last role served was as the Director for Training, Accreditation, and Standards.