It's not the people who die in atmospheric rivers in British Columbia, the people who lose their homes or the people who can't get flood insurance.
What we're facing in British Columbia is an increase in the intensity of atmospheric rivers. We're seeing more of these atmospheric rivers on a yearly basis than we've seen in previous decades. What's happening is that we're paying for this twice. First of all, we're paying for it as taxpayers, and we're paying a second time with the losses that result from the floods that affect our homes and communities.
You may want to come to these committees and talk about the benefits that accrue in theory, but I can tell you that, in practice, the implications of the failures of these government departments on our communities are measured in dollars, lives and loss of homes. What do you have to say to that?