It's very valuable insight.
I want to turn to Mr. DeMarco and your flood hazard mapping report.
When I was a municipal councillor, I sat on the board of our local conservation authority, and we engaged quite a bit with flood plain mapping. Very dense parts of our community exist within flood plains, so we always had questions from developers and people wanting to make changes to properties.
We engaged with some lidar technology to establish new mapping and ended up expanding the flood plain to a significant extent.
In your report, in the overall message portion, you note that Public Safety Canada has a portal to help identify flood risks, but that the portal does not consider climate change projections, which is surprising. Your report notes that the risk ratings are based on “present-day assumptions” related to flooding. Would you mind indulging me in explaining what you mean by present-day assumptions?