I was really interested to learn, when I took this job on recently, that probably the place we get the most traffic is at the Canadian Centre for Climate Services. It's a site that has a ton of data and that folks visit—I think it was something like over half a million users—to really find out about how to adapt to climate change. That's not to say that we don't want to continue to find ways to take action to reduce emissions, but it's really focused on what you can do and how you can manage yourself, your farm and your business to ensure that you have healthy land, air and water as you are moving forward. That is one really big piece of business that we at ECCC are doing to support people and communities as they are looking to respond to the changing climate that we are in.
The other piece we have is the disaster mitigation and adaptation fund that we launched in the city of Richmond, B.C. Then we also have a number of local leadership for climate adaptation initiatives. I think it speaks to the fact that we are a federal government but the solutions for these things are really quite local and for people. It's about really trying to thread that needle of having information available to support people in making the decisions that they need to make and empowering them. It goes even to the high-performance computing power that we were talking about earlier. We need to ensure that people have the information that they need to make the decisions to support themselves. There are costs on both sides of the equation. How do we get ahead of those and help people do what they want to do?
