Emergency Preparedness and Resilience

Note 1 Given the differences in the way of life in the territories compared to elsewhere in Canada, in conjunction with the unique challenges related to data collection in the territories (e.g., high turnover of telephone numbers, high population mobility and the remoteness of many communities), residents of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut were excluded from the survey population. [...] More specifically, in the event of an industrial or transportation accident (39%), a riot or civil unrest (39%E), a weather-related emergency or natural disaster (38%), an act of terrorism or terrorist threat (36%E), or a contamination or shortage of water or food (28%), news on the radio was the source that people in Charlottetown would turn to first for information or assistance (Table 1.1). [...] Residents anticipated first turning to news on the radio as a source of help and information in the event of a weather- related emergency or natural disaster (38%), a contamination or shortage of water or food (26%E), and an industrial or transportation accident (24%E) (Table 1.1). [...] Prior lifetime experience with a major emergency or disaster 5 More than one-quarter (27%) of residents of smaller communities of Prince Edward Island have experienced a major emergency or disaster in Canada in a community they were living in at the time of the event.