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Review the following article:

BC floods reveat fragile food supply chains$-$ ways$|$to manage the crisis now and in the future

https:$//$theconversation$.$com$/$b$-$c$-$floods$-$reveal$-$fragile$-$food$-$supply$-$chains$-4-$ways$-$to$-$manage$\_$the$-$crisis$-$now$-$and$-$in$-$the$-$future$-172220$

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Critical lnfrastructures $($CI$)$: mudslide, damaged ports. and destroyed highways and railways in BC $,$ Canada coupled with new waves of the COVID$-19$ breakouts all over the world

and here at home have caused interruptions in Cl of Canada.

$1.$ Find two reasonable definitions of CI

$2.$ Compare the interruption in the supply chain m anagem ent in Canada due to the Coronavirus and rail block ades event in $2020$ with the supply chain management

interruptions in Canada due to the BC flood:

a$.$ In what way$($s$)$ are these two Cl interruption events similar to each other?

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In what way$($s$)$ are these two Cl interruption events different from each other?

$3.$ How can Canada protectits Cl against interruptions due to natural disasters?

$4.$ What are major risk factors $($weak points$)$ in the Canadian logistics networks?

$5,$ What are the main characteristics of a resilient logistics network?