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Public Safety committee Thank you. This legislation does not change the organizational structure of our department. Bill C-12 brings greater accountability to how the federal government responds to and prepares for emergencies. It provides our minister with the authority to set guidelines, best practic
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee Bill C-12 would replace the Emergency Preparedness Act.
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee Completely, but as Jamie said, it continues the financial assistance programs to provinces and territories. Each minister continues to be responsible for preparing their own emergency management activities. The new feature is that it provides greater accountability for collaborat
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee We have consulted the Information Commissioner and the Minister of Justice as well.
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee In terms of information sharing that is part of this act, it does not include personal information, but the Privacy Commissioner was consulted and he didn't have any concerns.
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee I will respond just on the first part of the question, with respect to clause 6. Clause 6 obviously is a really important section of this legislation. It brings together how the federal government approaches emergencies. One of the key features of this piece of proposed legislat
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee They were consulted.
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee On your question about ministerial roles and responsibilities, paragraphs 4(1)(b) and 4(1)(c) are the areas where our minister would be responsible for providing advice to other ministers on their emergency management plans, as well as analyzing and evaluating those plans.
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee It provides us the background, with a framework to establish policies and programs to make sure we have a monitoring or evaluating auditing unit in place.
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee About whether or not our minister would have the responsibility to review or to ensure that there would be backup plans for crown corporations.... The answer would be yes, that “government institution” in Bill C-12 does include crown corporations.
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee You're right, that's a tougher question. With respect to the definition of critical infrastructure, you're absolutely right, it's not in the legislation. In terms of whether we are referring to a specific definition, we intentionally did not describe it because how each provinc
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee Paragraph (h) is very specific to non-financial assistance because there are other provisions in the legislation specifically for financial assistance that triggers the DFAA. So in terms of this section, it's very much to coordinate non-financial assistance, in term of federal re
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee Right now the Access to Information Act does not specifically reference information that you just spoke about in terms of vulnerabilities to an electrical grid or a nuclear facility specifically, so it doesn't actually say that information shared with the Government of Canada on
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee Yes. In terms of this legislation and the amendment to the Access to Information Act, the amendment is not just for the Minister of Public Safety. It extends to all ministers, so information shared with the Minister of Natural Resources in terms of what you just raised--pipeline
October 5th, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong
Public Safety committee To be brief, not all provinces define municipalities or how they group regional authorities as municipalities. By singling out the word “municipality”, Richard is trying to say it may exclude how other provinces define a group, cities, or regional authorities.
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Suki Wong