Environment committee  I think the conditions are very good right now. Earlier, I mentioned the awareness. We recently did some research in a survey. It showed that 86% of people said that, yes, they had the individual responsibility to make sure their home was safe from things like that, but then only

Environment committee  We're having very good conversations right now. The disaster financial assistance arrangements are coming up for review in 2020, so in some of the conversations we're having right now, we're looking at the program to ask if it is still meeting its original intention. It was creat

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. We have a very large technical working group. We purposely have in there representatives from municipalities, provinces, territories, academia, industry, and private sector experts in technically advancing the discussion on flood plain mapping, becaus

Environment committee  We actually have a very good relationship with a number of the insurance industries right now. We have dialogue with them on likely a weekly basis right now. It's a whole-of-society issue. It's not just an insurance industry issue or a government issue. It's an issue even right d

Environment committee  Yes, there are conversations on that. It's one of the reasons why we are talking with provinces and territories at the municipal level with respect to their urban planning: because those are the decisions that get made that ultimately have impacts on the individual citizen down t

Environment committee  Really, those decisions are made at the grassroots level—the municipal, city, or provincial level—in terms of those risk assessments they make about what the impact is going to be on the broader community overall. One of the things we encourage in our conversations is that peop

Environment committee  I can tell you that, just as an example, right now we have 76 open files on disaster financial assistance arrangements. I'll use that as one marker. Right now, I have a $1.8-billion liability against that, of those ones that are still open. That's a five-year range that I'm looki

Environment committee  It's done by a model. There are various kinds of flood plain mapping. On one hand, the Insurance Bureau of Canada will talk about the flood plain mapping that they do. It's a very high-level mapping that takes a picture. That doesn't give you the granularity that you would see

Environment committee  Absolutely. Thank you very much for the question. To go back to the point I made earlier, everyone who's involved in any kind of decision-making with respect to urban planning, with respect to disaster mitigation, or with respect to emergency management has to start with the fou

Environment committee  —in terms of what we do about that. There are three main areas that we're having these conversations about in terms of the challenges. You have houses built on flood plains that become a high risk from an insurance perspective. We need to have some preconditions in place to supp

Environment committee  We're doing a lot of work with provinces and municipalities in terms of the conversation around what you do with respect to those building codes and in introducing some of the concepts such as the backwater flood valve that I spoke about earlier. We have a couple of really good w

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. We have a very interesting challenge in that regard, because the reality is that the vast majority of Canadian cities are actually built on flood plains. It's not just an issue for one or two provinces. It's an issue for pretty much everybody, except

Environment committee  We personally don't do that, but we work with the building code—

Environment committee  I'm not sure if my colleagues from Environment and Climate Change or NRCan could answer that question. I don't have knowledge of that. I'm sorry.

Environment committee  It's the National Research Council.