Thank you, and welcome back to committee.
I'm going to circle back to something that we spoke about the last time you appeared, and it's part of the conversation today. Certainly there's a cost to the Canadian economy from climate change, and earlier today it was referenced as an exceptional event, but I would argue that it's probably very much a regular event.
A CBC article said that the B.C. fires to date have cost $100 million, and that's before fire season begins. I'm not using this as an accurate amount, but we know it's a significant number whether it's that number or not, and that's just one place where fire has raged in our country.
We certainly have referenced the impact of Hurricane Fiona, which we are still trying to work through in the Atlantic region. There were floods in the past, and significant events with huge costs attached to them.
How is that cost captured? Are the costs captured in a way that's associated with the impact of climate change on our finances and the economy?