Potentially hot take: I’m very nervous about how quick Canadian EM academics/practitioners are to say “we should have a Canadian FEMA!” Like, we recognize that FEMA has a… checkered history, right? And that, at the very least, a Maple FEMA isn’t going to automagically solve our complex problems?

Yes, we need more money, better community engagement approaches, a more comprehensive paradigm, to adapt to a changing climate, and so forth… But a Maple FEMA is just as likely to entrench the current problems on those fronts, and it’s not going to magically make those things easier to solve.