"We didn’t want to alarm the whole city. It was our decision not to activate the provincial Alert Ready system for the whole city of 162,000 people at that time as we wanted to directly contact the 300 people who live in Sumas Prairie."
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Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun VANCOUVER News Misinformation rampant as B.C. public safety minister downplays alert system used everywhere else in Canada (november 17, 2021)
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