The national Alert Ready public warning system was introduced to Nova Scotia in 2011 to broadcast warnings over television and radio but cellphone warnings were added to the system in 2018.
Issuing alerts initially fell to the province’s Emergency Management Office but EMO executive director Paul Mason told the inquiry that the office had offered in 2016 for the RCMP and the two largest municipal police forces in the province to become system trusted users that could independently send out alerts without going through EMO.
None of the three accepted the offer.
Mason testified that his office reached out to the RCMP on the morning of April 19, 2020, about issuing an alert and he was shocked that the Mounties hadn’t considered sending out a warning. No alert was ever issued.
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