NDP introduces bill to put telcoms in command centre during power failures
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On Tuesday, the NDP introduced legislation in response to last month's widespread telecommunications failures.
The bill requires provincial and municipal emergency management teams to include a plan for continuous telecommunications for the public.
It also mandates that telecommunications companies provide information to EMO following a storm or emergency.
"They were not as involved, frankly, in the emergency planning as we thought that they ought to have been and that they ought to be in the future," said NDP MLA Claudia Chender. "So this bill basically codifies that and says these telcoms have to come to the table, be part of an emergency management plan, the same way that Nova Scotia Power was."
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