It's a start.
One thing we found in the Global Water Futures program is that there's almost nowhere in Canada where there is a flood prediction point on a first nations territory, on an indigenous territory. We put them in the big cities. That's where the gauges and the prediction points went. There's an easy win there: It's to start making sure that we're actually predicting flooding directly on reserves.
The second thing is to bring indigenous knowledge into this. It's something that we did with co-led projects. There may not have been gauges there for a long time, but there are long memories of when floods occurred, how they occurred and things like that. We bring that in to do a test of our predictions to make sure that they have some reality to them.
The other thing is that, for floods, we tend to focus on economic damages. We talk about $6 billion in Calgary. We don't talk about human suffering so much. The suffering is often much more profound in the more vulnerable and poorer communities. There are some in Manitoba and elsewhere in the country that have had long-term evacuations due to flooding. They're not getting back to their communities. This is destructive in such a fundamental way to the whole society. We need to better account for those problems.