MMIPS Canada · Preparing
A Canadian MMIPS system built around First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
MMIPS Canada is being built as a separate Canadian public-awareness system with its own database, map, reporting workflow, privacy controls, moderation, and country-specific terminology. It will not share the United States MMIPS case database.
If someone is in immediate danger, call 911.
Contact the police service of jurisdiction as soon as you are concerned for a person's safety. There is no 24-hour waiting period to report someone missing.
MMIPS Canada will be a public-awareness and family-support resource. It will not replace a police report or emergency service.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis are not one category
The Canadian system will preserve the distinctions among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples and will prefer the proper name of a Nation, community, Inuit region, or Métis government/community when a family chooses to provide it.
Canadian geography and search
Canada will use provinces and territories, Canadian postal codes, communities and localities, and kilometres. It will use Canadian case-reference and reporting fields rather than reusing United States-specific identifiers or geography fields.
Canadian reporting context
The RCMP National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains supports missing-person and unidentified-remains investigations across Canada; it does not replace the local police report.
Prelaunch safeguards
Canadian intake stays closed until the Canadian system is independently ready.
This prelaunch portal does not accept case submissions, expose U.S. profiles, or connect to the U.S. MMIPS database. Before Canadian intake opens, MMIPS Canada must have its own database, Canadian privacy review, Canadian moderation process, bilingual launch plan, synthetic-data rehearsal, and security review.
Separate Canadian database
Case, family, subscriber, administrator, audit, and storage data will be isolated from every other country system.
English and French launch readiness
Public instructions, safety language, consent, corrections, and privacy information must be reviewed for both official-language experiences before real intake opens.
Community-preferred naming
The data model is being designed to preserve community- and Nation-preferred names rather than forcing U.S. Tribal terminology onto Canadian Indigenous Peoples.