Emergency alerts when severe weather happens can be improved: Guilbeault
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OTTAWA — Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says emergency weather alerts that are broadcast over the mobile network should be improved to make sure they’re getting to the right people at the right time.
Guilbeault says the critical issue is to make sure the warnings are sent when people need to pay attention, but don’t tune them out.
He says such conversations may form part of the discussion between governments on adapting to climate change as severe and extreme weather is a more frequent occurrence now in all parts of the country.
Environment Canada issued a broadcast alert on the cellphone network for a thunderstorm for the first time Saturday as the storm now known to have been a derecho raced across Ontario with wind speeds above 130 kilometres an hour.
