Fran, it's been a few months, but do you or anyone else know if those are new plans there with Wind? I don't remember them having a 20¢/minute pay as you go option last October. They've got the same sort of minimum $10/month airtime going in cost restriction like Rogers, I noticed, but the overall rates are a smidge bit more reasonable. Still not as potentially cheap as 7-11's Speakout Wireless for rarely-used phone service, but a better deal for folks who'd mostly have incoming and are targeting around 50 minutes outbound or less a month.
When you do go and get a phone for "emergencies" only, you should define what constitutes an emergency and who you'll be contacting. If we're talking a true, hardcore emergency only phone that's going to dial 911 only, the CRTC (just like the FCC) has a mandate requiring all cell phones, active or inactive or even without a SIM card to be able to dial and connect to any cell tower in range when 911 (or 112) is dialed on the phone. No sense paying for phone service if you don't actually need it.