Transport committee  Thanks for the question on coordination. I think coordination is very key. The model we're talking about.... My expertise is in climate adaptation rather than mitigation. I would say that something like FEMA in the U.S. coordinates resiliency. Having a chief resiliency officer f

Transport committee  In many cases, in terms of flood, wildfire and heat resilience, I think we already have the tools in the tool box to change things. It's a question of implementation. We've been doing a lot of work to provide those tools to residents and to businesses so that we get action on the

Transport committee  I think many different communities are facing different risks. There isn't a kind of blanket approach we can apply that will address all communities equally. Some are facing forest fires and some are facing coastal erosion. I think we understand what the problems are. In terms o

Transport committee  Yes. Thank you for the question. In terms of 2022, we are at $3.1 billion in insured losses for that year, which was the third-highest year on record. Over the last few years, we've been over $2 billion in just what's insured, knowing that people who are in high-risk flood zones

Transport committee  What I'm most familiar with is that in Quebec we have a threshold over the life of the house; there's a certain threshold where people will get assistance. After that threshold, they will not get assistance. There's a threshold for rebuilding as well. We're actually seeing that

Transport committee  To clarify, I don't work for Intact Financial Corporation. I work for the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, which is at the University of Waterloo. We do not have insurers' data. That is Intact's data. I know that examination of insurance data and the kind of mapping that is

Transport committee  Good afternoon. First, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to address the committee. This work is very important, so thank you for the work you do on this. I'm going to cover three points. They largely draw on some of the actions in this report, which is the advice fr

Fisheries committee  That's a great question. We haven't really started the discussion in Canada, whereas in the U.K. we have shoreline management plans over the whole of the coastline, with a strategy for each coast that was consulted on with the populations. We have a long way to go here.

Fisheries committee  I would just maybe add that often we're focused on reducing risks, but there is also an opportunity through adaptation to make things better. I would refer to the Ville de Percé example. The cost benefit of that project was actually 68:1, according to the cost-benefit analysis, d

Fisheries committee  Our paradigm has changed, meaning how we conceive of things. We are now giving more consideration to natural systems at the design phase, from the very outset. I think this aspect needs to be reviewed. Infrastructure breakdowns are an opportunity to ask whether they are in the ri

Fisheries committee  Exactly.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for your question. In Canada right now, grey infrastructure solutions appear to be the usual ones, by default. I'm from the United Kingdom and I've worked extensively in the Netherlands, where several methods that involve natural processes were used. It's also being do

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. As a geoscientist watching hurricane Fiona, I couldn’t escape a feeling of inevitability, seeing the impacts on the coastal areas of Atlantic Canada. Changing flood and erosion impacts on Canada's east coast were recently documented