How often are amber alerts both in this province and nationally? If they are more frequent than other critical alerts - that require a immediate action from those who get it - then I'm changing my tune from nothing should be done to it, to perhaps some tweaking should be considered.
If a high portion of the population can't really do anything about it, then it isn't worth waking them up in the middle of the night if their phone settings is set to silent/DND. Getting these alerts multiple times a year is just going to tune people out if they become annoyed with getting woken up unexpectedly for something they can't act upon.
It's important that the importance of these alerts don't get diminished. Amber alerts are very important, and I'm not saying the current system isn't the best way of going about it, but I think it's fair to say that these type of alerts are different from life threatening events to an entire population. So they may need to be treated differently. It's important though that the effectiveness isn't negated by doing this though. Ideally changes or not, the results should be the same as it is now. (Or better)
It is worth discussing. It's brand new, so make adjustments as needed if necessary.
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