Currently Ready Alert requests have to pass through the province. On Wednesday, Premier Tim Houston suggested that he was having senior officials conduct an internal review and look into the possibility of allowing municipal emergency management officials to send out emergency alerts directly. "Public confidence would be deepened and better ensured by having an independent external review," he said. NDP member Gary Burrill, the former party leader, said it all boils down to confidence in the system. Churchill called the current system "outdated" because it was designed before the province became subject to frequent extreme weather events. "If we are going to achieve what we need to, we need to have climate experts, we need to have independent experts come in and help modernize our emergency management system," Liberal Leader Zach Churchill said. Opposition politicians and the mayor of a Nova Scotia municipality devastated by floods say the province should order an external review of the response to the recent disaster.īoth of Nova Scotia's opposition parties, along with two flooding experts, were in agreement Thursday about the need for the review to be carried out by an outside expert.
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