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Mandate of the Canadian Emergency Management College

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Mission

Founded in Arnprior, Ontario in 1954, the Canadian Emergency Management College (CEMC) is the Government of Canada’s focal point for cross-disciplinary emergency management (EM) training and learning. CEMC’s mission is to enhance the capability of Canada’s EM community through educational means so that the impact of disasters on the Canadian public is minimized. CEMC exists to serve the EM community and is a national resource for the advancement of EM training and learning.

CEMC’s priorities are to:

• Advance the state of EM knowledge in Canada by gathering, developing, integrating and sharing core information and resources.
• In close collaboration with provincial and territorial EM training programs, work to support and augment those programs with complementary courses and services.
• Provide to federal employees a training and learning program focused on cross-disciplinary EM.
• Promote the development of the Canadian EM educational community, including its academic, government, not-for-profit and private sector elements, through proactive community building and outreach both nationally and internationally.
  
  

Guiding principles

• Quality: CEMC strives for the highest quality in all its programs and services and works to ensure it provides the best available teaching. Emphasis is placed on understanding and meeting client needs.
• Public interest: Priority is given to those programs, courses and client groups that best serve the public interest.
• Openness: EM capacity is a public good, therefore CEMC works to ensure its materials and courses are as open and accessible as possible.
• Complementarity: CEMC programs complement and support other related activities in Canada. CEMC works to disseminate mature course and resource materials to shift resources to higher-risk or less-available programs and to address critical gaps.
• Comprehensiveness: CEMC maintains an ongoing interest in all aspects of the practice of EM, at all levels, and evolves its programs as understanding of EM evolves. This enables CEMC to promote compatible EM practices and understanding across Canada, to serve the varying needs of different clients, and to act as a national resource centre for EM knowledge.

External advisory mechanisms
CEMC is an integral part of PSEPC and is directly responsive to government priorities. In addition, CEMC utilizes three formal channels to obtain external guidance and advice:

• CEMC Advisory Board (to be created)
• Provincial and territorial EM partners tasked with coordinating national EM training, represented by the National Emergency Management Training Committee
• Federal interdepartmental EM community