Industry Canada Emergency Telecommunications - Site Map

Organization

Legal Responsibilities

Programs

• Emergency Telecommunications Data System
• Priority Access for Dialing (PAD) or Line Load Control
• Wireless Priority Service
• CANALERT
• CTCP - Canadian Telecommunications Cyber Protection
• Emergency Telecommunications Coordination Alliance
  (Emergency Response to Disaster Program)
• Inventory of Telecommunications Resources
• MSAT Emergency Telecom Network
• Training
• Vital Points
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Projects

• Canadian Telecommunications Cyber Protection (CTCP)
• High Probability of Completion (HPC)
• NATO CPC Website
• Public Alerting
• Wireless Priority Service (WPS)

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Committees

• CEPTAG - US/Canada Civil Emergency Planning Telecommunications Advisory Group
• ICC - Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee
• IECC - Interdepartmental Exercise Coordination Committee
• IMCC - Interdepartmental Mitigation Coordination Committee
• NETC - National Emergency Telecommunications Committee
• RETC - Regional Emergency Telecommunications Committees
• RETO - Regional Emergency Telecommunications Officers Committee
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Working Groups

• Long Distance Emergency Telecommunications Working Group
• Not available
  National Working Group on Use of Wireless Telecommunications in Time of Emergency
  
• WGET - United Nations Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications
• Wireless E-911 Working Group
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Agreements

• Civil Emergency Planning Telecommunications Advisory Group
• Letter of Understanding with the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association
• Memorandum of Understanding with Department of National Defence
• Tampere Convention
• Telephone Companies for PAD/LLC and Vital Points

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Reference Documents

• 9-1-1
• Disaster Communications
• Legal Documents, Agreements, Conventions, etc., affecting Emergency Telecommunications
• Priority Access
• Public Alerting
• Telecommunications Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Other Useful Documents

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Exercises

• CANATEX-II Exercise recommendations
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Disaster Events

• Spectrum Management Employees Assist in Swissair Disaster
• Swiss Air Crash. Download the full story in pdf format here
• The Eastern Canada Ice Storm of 1998
• The 1997 Manitoba Flood Industry Canada Telecom Situation Reports
• The 1997 Manitoba Flood Website
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Regional Activities

• Atlantic
• Ontario
• Pacific
  
• Prairies
• Quebec