Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  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 ale

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I could only speculate from what I hear about the level of connectivity in certain areas, but the alert system does also issue alerts over radio and TV, so it's a three-pronged approach. It helps, obviously, if your radio is on or your TV is on, so you'll still get alerts. That h

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Correct. I did mention that the brand name of the system is Alert Ready.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's nothing like that. As I said, it's on TV and on radio, and there are also a number of apps that take those alerts. The Weather Network app rebroadcasts alerts in local areas, so you have to be connected to Wi-Fi and not LTE. It's a multipronged approach. Right now it's

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have not done that yet. It's something we want to pursue, but we started at the federal level. We've had some informal conversations with Public Safety Canada to say that this is something we would take on and facilitate if the challenge was having a different agency to admini

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To clarify, it's not an app. It's a cell broadcast system. For weather events right now, Environment Canada issues alerts for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. For other weather events—and I had this conversation with other colleagues of yours in British Columbia—such as floo

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I am pleased to be here to speak with the committee about the critical issue of red dress alerts. Founded in 1989, Pelmorex is best known for The Weather Network and MétéoMédia television channels, websites and mobile apps. Indeed, we are a Canadian institution. Most

Status of Women committee  I think what the previous witness has said is exactly right in terms of working with the communities. Right now, we work within the jurisdictions in Canada to issue alerts, so the federal government, primarily Environment and Climate Change Canada, and then all the provincial and

Status of Women committee  Yes, correct.

Status of Women committee  We pay for the whole system and we and we have from inception, through a condition of our broadcasting licence that is part of having The Weather Network and MétéoMédia on the basic cable package, which guarantees us access to all homes in Canada and a certain amount of fixed rev

Status of Women committee  The concept of charging every first nation or every community, I think, is not the best option. You want it to be a national system with open access for all first nations and all communities. I think either the provinces or the federal government singularly would be most ideal. T

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Everyone is familiar with the amber alert. We've recently added silver alerts to the system, which is when someone with Alzheimer's, dementia or cognitive disabilities goes missing. That's been piloted in Quebec. It's really no different from that. It's another vulner

Status of Women committee  As I said, we don't decide to add those. We built a national system, so we—

Status of Women committee  It was the senior officials responsible for emergency management, SOREM. Basically, the senior officials for emergency management from all the provinces, territories and Public Safety Canada sit on a board. They meet and talk about all sorts of public safety issues and this is on

Status of Women committee  We have contracts with every province and territory, Environment and Climate Change Canada, NRCan and Public Safety Canada. Within every province, they decide how to use the system. I have a list here that shows all—