Vision & Mission

Canada's National Public Safety Organization

Vision
To be a world leader in avalanche awareness, education and safety services.

Mission
The Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is a non-government, not-for-profit corporation established in 2004 to serve as Canada’s national public avalanche safety organization. In the absence of any other federal or provincial agency with a mandate for this national public service role, a broad coalition of federal, provincial, private and not-for-profit sector stakeholders established the following purposes for the CAC.

To serve as Canada’s national public avalanche safety organization by:

• Coordinating public avalanche safety programming;
• Providing public avalanche safety warnings;
• Delivering public avalanche awareness and education;
• Providing avalanche training for non-professional winter recreation;
• Serving as point of contact for public, private and government avalanche information and;
• Encouraging avalanche research.