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B.C.’s New Bill 31 – Emergency and Disaster Management Act

CCEM Strategies

Since then, the Province has been continually responding to large-scale disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 and 2023 floods and wildfires. A deliberate focus on modernization first emerged five years ago in 2018, when the Province adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. In 2019, B.C.