I have my Ham license in America and so it may be different for our maple syrup friends up north. But one thing that is stressed repeatedly throughout preparing for the exam is that when an emergency happens most of the restrictions fly out the door as the emphasis is on helping address the emergency. So I am assuming the FCC equivalent wouldn't be too peeved.
Of course I'm sure this does run the line of if this is emergency or not.
An telecommunications outage, by itself, is not an immediate threat to life or limb to you, and you'd need to exhaust other reasonable options to communicate before that emergency provision comes into play.
(Many hospitals do also have ham radio operators as part of the disaster plans and operate during their drills.)
Let's not make ham radio operation out to be some complex Voodoo that requires months of training. You tune your radio to a given frequency and press the ptt button.
Yes sure, there's repeaters, and other details to know about, but tx/rx on a single frequency isn't exactly the rocket science that sad hams make it out to be.
Of course I'm sure this does run the line of if this is emergency or not.