GNWT formally rejects MLAs’ call for new emergency management agency – Cabin Radio
November 7, 2025
The NWT government has issued what is likely to be its final rejection of calls to establish a new, standalone emergency management agency.
Creating a year-round agency was a key recommendation of an independent review of the NWT’s 2023 wildfires and evacuations.
The GNWT rejected that recommendation, saying a separate year-round agency “would be costly, duplicative, and difficult to staff.”
