As we head into winter, the city of Toronto is launching a new review of extreme weather preparedness.
It was just under three years ago that hundreds of thousands of people across the city were in the dark during the holiday season, after what staff called a "catastrophic" ice storm.
"I think looking back now, people would say we got through it, it was fine," mayor John Tory says. "But we weren't necessarily as ready as we should be."
About 100 stakeholders within government, the private and non-profit sectors, will spend up to a year developing a new "resilience strategy" to be more prepared next time the city is hit with extreme weather or something similar to the SARS outbreak.
Mayor Tory says that while improvements have been made since the storm and outbreak, including on communication, more needs to be done.
"As you have, unfortunately, more frequent events of this kind that strike the city, the last thing you want to say is you didn't keep leading and keep improving."