Follow-up question from Jérôme Marty, Council of Canadian Academies Meeting of March 30, 2022 Will those advancements and augmentation of infrastructure in the face of increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events, heat waves included, present new risks to CI resilience, and are we ready? New technologies in the field of communication are offering new opportunities to enable live data measurements that could help track and detect disasters at the early stage and contribute to early warning systems. Such tools will contribute to better decisions when responding to disasters.

I will note that such fast internet technologies are currently not available in many remote locations in Canada, although new investments to enable internet access in remote areas have started to address this issue. The opportunities and barriers associated with access to high speed communication were addressed in another recent report of the CCA (Waiting to connect: https://www.cca- reports.ca/reports/high-throughput-networks-for-rural-and-remote-communities/ ).