Environment committee  In the context of a residential flood insurance market? Is that the question?

Environment committee  When I'm talking about overland flooding, I'm talking about those things that would normally occur, such as flooding in the situations that we just saw in Ontario and Quebec, where water pours in through doors and windows—

Environment committee  It could be from the incapacity of the ground to absorb the water and torrential rains or severe weather, or it could be from a river flooding.

Environment committee  Absolutely. We work with every province and territory as well as municipalities and the private sector, academics, technical experts—

Environment committee  The flood plain mapping?

Environment committee  No, the flood plain mapping is not done. There are different phases of flood plain mapping. It depends on the leadership role that a province, territory, or municipality takes in terms of where they prioritize flood plain mapping.

Environment committee  We have a target for national flood plain mapping guidelines, which was a commitment made as a result of this audit and recommendation, so we announced that in March 2017. Now it's up to each individual province and territory to lead that initiative in terms of completing their f

Environment committee  We don't establish an end date for them, no.

Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  Yes. We work with the National Research Council of Canada on things like building codes. We work with the Canada Mortgage and Housing agency. We work with a number of different entities that have a capacity to influence provinces, territories, and municipalities in terms of the k

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. The situation in both Ontario and Quebec, and certainly in B.C. and New Brunswick, has been very tragic in terms of the flooding we've seen. Approximately 245 communities or districts have been affected. One of the things that came out very clearly

Environment committee  One of the things we see is that severe weather and climate change are having a significant impact both on our weather patterns and on disasters, both flooding and fire, as in the example that we saw in Fort McMurray last year. We know that Canada is the only G7 country that do

Environment committee  Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Madam Chair. I am pleased to be here to speak on behalf of Public Safety Canada, with my colleagues from Environment and Climate Change Canada, Infrastructure Canada, Health Canada, and the National Research Council of Canada, to follow up on th

Environment committee  I think that going forward there are many ways in which we can prepare in terms of mitigating against natural disasters. We know that in Canada right now we spend the most money on flooding. With respect to flood-related disasters, there are many mitigative measures we can put in

Environment committee  No, that's a relatively new number from approximately 1996. What we do is take the requests from the provinces and territories for disaster—