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Canadians were promised a national flood insurance program 6 years ago. Will Carney actually deliver?

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Will the feds finally approve a flood insurance program? | The Narwhal

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Government should be buying those flood prone properties and returning them to parkland. Insuring the inevitable isn't risk management, its foolish.
Don't build in flood plains. The 1000 year flood is the new 100 year flood, so be sure to buy some good hip waders.
- Instead, they’re bypassing environmental assessments
- Why wouldn't I build in a flood plain? You said that you think the government should reward people who build in flood plains by buying their house. How is that going to make people less likely to build in a flood plain.
  
  No one who has ever had a property expropriated ever called it being rewarded.
I previously worked at an insurance company some years ago. Back then the company was complaining that flood maps were something like decades out of date, and that was irresponsible to let developers build and sell homes to unsuspecting homeowners who had no reason, or even a way, to know they were in a flood plain.
I suspect nothing has changed in the intervening years.
- Don't know about your area, but in ours its Conservation Authorities who map flood plains. Theirs are pretty well updated from my experience working with them.
Nope, he won't. I've been saying this for a decade now. Homes, businesses, and roads will flood. Flooding will be Canada's main infrastructure problem for the next few decades as climate change gets exponentially worse.
Civil engineers have been sounding the alarm for longer than I've known the problem existed, and nothing is ever done. I am calling it now: nothing will be done until a major government building in Ottawa has to close for a year (or more) for remediation, costing millions.
Screw just insuring people building in flood plains. We need to be re-wilding them instead of infinitely rebuilding.
( X ) doubt
Apparently the Liberals sold us a fully costed campaign platform that they won’t deliver on because they only care about infrastructure programs and natural resource extraction.

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