Thank you for the question. It's a good one.
To clarify, Alberta does have some first nations that do have access to use it, but as far as I understand no other province does.
The benefit is just to have the local emergency management organizations on the ground issuing the alerts and having that autonomy to do so.
I could see another benefit. Right now we see that the system is used on an inconsistent basis. There's never been a forest fire alert issued in Ontario, and there have obviously been forest fires. Enabling more users would lead ideally to more use of the system. We built the system to be used to save lives, so that's a major benefit, whether to first nations or to any community.
A remote community might benefit more. They know what's going on there, and it might be even more of a challenge to have an alert issued through a centralized agency. That wouldn't always be the case, but that could be the case.