Emergency Preparedness Week 2025
Emergency kit challenge

How to participate

This year, participate in our challenge to win an emergency kit.

Complete a short form to enter the kit challenge via GC Forms and tell us how you and your household are prepared to cope during an emergency.

It can be as simple as making an emergency kit with items found around your home, creating a household emergency plan, or becoming more informed about the hazards in your area.

We'll be posting on our social media channels from May 4-10, 2025 to remind you to enter!

Rules and Regulations

1. Eligibility Criteria

1.1 Contest Period

The Contest runs from May 4th, 2025 at 12:00am until May 10th, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT.

1.2 How to Enter

No purchase or entry fee is required.

During the Contest Period, entrants must complete a short form to enter the kit challenge via GC Forms which includes submitting their name, mailing address and preferred contact method (email and/or phone number) and how they are taking action to be emergency ready.

Participants (or the parent/legal guardian of the participant who is under the age of majority in their province or territory of residence) must read and agree to the Privacy Notice included in the GC Forms, and expressly consent to these Rules and Regulations.

Public Safety Canada (PS) will be posting on their X, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts every day during EP Week, inviting participants to enter.

Limit one (1) contest registration per person.

1.3 Personal Eligibility

Entrants must be: Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada or protected persons designated by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada or Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Contest coordinators, PS employees, PS contractors, individuals working as casuals within PS, students working within PS, and their immediate families, are not eligible to participate in the Contest.

PS reserves the right to request verification of these eligibility criteria from the Entrant at any time.

2. Prizes & Draw

2.1 Selecting Prizes

Prizes will be awarded as follows: There are fourteen (14) prizes to be won during the Contest Period. Each prize is a 4 person deluxe Canadian Red Cross Disaster Preparedness Kit. The kit features multiple essential items such as a flashlight, a multifunction knife, waterproof matches, a personal first aid kit, food and water, and an emergency blanket that will help support you during the first 72 hours of an emergency. All items are carried in a nylon backpack.

Entrants are only eligible to win one (1) prize during the Contest Period.

2.2 Awarding Prizes

Prior to receiving their prize, PS will have to be satisfied that each winner (or the parent/legal guardian in the case of a winner who is under the age of majority in their province or territory of residence) have read and agreed to the Privacy Notice included in the GC Forms, and expressly consent to these Rules and Regulations.

PS will contact the winners by using their submitted email address or phone number with the following "Congratulations, you have been selected as one of the winners of a 4 person deluxe Canadian Red Cross Disaster Preparedness Kit. Your emergency kit will be shipped to the provided mailing address."

Prizes must be accepted as awarded and are non-refundable, non-transferable and non-redeemable for any cash value. PS reserves the right to make prize substitutions of equivalent monetary value.

PS will pay the costs to deliver the prize to the winner's home address. Each winner will be responsible for all costs or expenses related to set-up.

2.3 Odds

Participants' odds of winning will depend on the total number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period.

2.4 Draw Details

Fourteen (14) random draws will occur during the Contest Period (May 4-10), at PS' office in Ottawa, from all eligible entries received by 11:59 p.m. EDT the day prior. You do not need to be in attendance to be selected.

3. Use of Personal Information

By accepting these Rules and Regulations and submitting an entry via GC Forms, Entrants (or the parent/guardian) expressly consent to the collection, use, storage, disclosure, and deletion of their personal information by PS for the purposes of administering the Contest as well as for the other purposes expressly contemplated in these Rules and Regulations in accordance with the federal Privacy Act. Such purposes include allowing PS to use the Entrants' personal information to communicate with them to inform them of their win. If you are unsatisfied with the way PS handles your personal information, you have the right to file a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

4. Disclaimers and Exclusion of Liability

His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, PS Minister, employees, servants, agents, contractors, assigns or successors assume no responsibility for Contest Entries that are lost, stolen, tampered with, late, damaged, misdirected, received through impermissible channels, illegible or unintelligible for any reason or for any other circumstance that may limit an individual's ability to participate in the Contest or otherwise affect the administration, security, impartiality or normal course of the Contest, including without limitation any combination of the following:

His Majesty the King in Right of Canada assumes no responsibility to any Entrant for any direct or indirect, special, consequential or punitive damages in connection with the Contest or these Rules and Regulations.

5. General

PS reserves the absolute right, at its sole discretion and without notice, to reject any Entrant who submits an entry via GC Forms in a manner that is contrary to these Rules and Regulations, disruptive to the proper operation of the Contest, or by its nature is unjust to other Entrants.

PS reserves the right to modify, suspend or cancel the Contest in whole or in part for any reason at its sole discretion.

6. Applicable law

The Contest is subject to applicable federal, provincial, and territorial laws. This Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law.

7. Confirmation of the understanding and acceptance of the terms and conditions

All advertising and related Contest social posts will be redirected to the Emergency Preparedness Week page on GetPrepared.ca, where the Contest Rules and Regulations will be posted. Submission of an entry to the contest by an Entrant (or the parent/guardian) will be construed as the Entrant (or the parent/guardian) acknowledging that they understand and accept the Contest Rules and Regulations.

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