"In response to John Watson of CARE and Aileen Carroll I have to agree that there isn't any coordination of a Canadian Disaster or Emergency policy. I am the representative of a new Canadian Swiss company, Mobile Cube Corporation, that has developed a 1 metre square cube that produces up to 25 kwhs of electricity and purifies from any contaminated source at the same time, up to 30,000 litres of water, continuously, for five years from solar and wind power. I have sent emails, information to Aileen Carroll's office, her Executive Assistant, three executive directors from CIDA that report directly to the Minister, have talked to everyone of these people in regards to who would sanction the use of the Mobile Cube for disaster relief and preparedness since September, 2004 because of the hurricanes in southern US and the Caribbean. I tried to meet with someone in the Minister's office and CIDA when I was invited fro the reading of the Throne Speech in Ottawa but to no avail. With the Tsnumai Disaster I have contacted the Minister's office again because I was told that CIDA gets it's direction from the Minister's office, this was also the direction the Red Cross asked me to take. The government has spent $7 million on two primitive desalination units and hundreds of thousands on pills to drop into dirty water! One Mobile Cube is $50k to $90kUS according to custom applications, detachable modules and or additional increased electricity production needs. With a disaster of this magnitude and all the talk of supporting entrepreneurs it is beyond me why no one from the Minister's office would investigate this as an innovation of extraordinary benefit from Canada.
Mobile Cube has been demonstrated directly to the Ministers of Energy, Water, Health and Education, in Europe and Africa as implementation is being planned for deployment in 2005 in their countries. At the same time that water is being purified, the electricity can be used for emergency needs ranging from refrigeration, sterilization and even oxygen generation for hospital clinics. Our focus has been to provide the Mobile Cube to villages, hospital clinics (70% are estimated to require optional Oxygen Generation modules), schools, and refugee camps in Africa. We would like to ship a Mobile Cube immediately as we have one that was designated for the President of Uganda available but hesitate with the incredible current need in South Asia. We also have one working in Kenya, at the home of the Kenya Ambassador to Switzerland next door to the President of Kenya's home.
As a young company we do not have the finances to send a Mobile Cube to East South Asia. Because we have not received support from the Minister's office we are turning to the International Federation of the Red Cross to sanction the use of the Mobile Cube in the field for tsunami refugees camps and could donate $35,000.00US to the Red Cross hoping to meet the January 11th government deadline for matching funds, designating the donated $35,000.00US and matching funds for a Mobile Cube. We would then have enough funds to ship one Mobile Cube from Switzerland, an oxygen module and someone to oversee setup and operation.
The United Nations Committee, OCHA, Office Coordinating Humanitarian Affairs is willing to set up a programme for Mobile Cubes to be sent to help tsunami victims in South Asia. They would manage funds donated to the UN earmarked for Mobile Cubes and oversee their deployment if CIDA, Department of Defense, Red Cross, or NGO sanctions the use of, or an organization raises funds for the Mobile Cube.
We would like the extraordinary Mobile Cube to be regarded as a gift from Canada to start the programme.
I was told by a Special Assistant in Bill Graham's office, Minister of Defence, that even though my request to sanction the use of the Mobile Cube by DART or the Department of Defense for Canadian emergencies like the BC Forest Fires or Peterbourgh flood, would probably take 3 to 4 years!
So when you ask if Canada has its act together I know first hand that Canada is overly cautious, behind the times and definetly slow to act!
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