Too Critical to Fail: How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure

by Ben Bisset, Kevin Quigley, Bryan Mills

Book Overview

In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk hero. As the Lac-M?gantic train derailment and the flood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773551611
• ISBN13: 9780773551619
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"