Funding isn’t flowing: ending dry spell for freshwater action

The federal government must honour its promised $1-billion investment in freshwater protection, in full recognition that water action underpins effective climate action.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s mandate letter from the prime minister instructed him to ‘implement a strengthened Freshwater Action Plan, including a historic investment to provide funding to protect and restore large lakes and river systems.’ The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALEXIS KANU, CAROLYN DUBOIS, AND EMMA WATTIE

June 22, 2022

The climate emergency is a water emergency. In Canada, we experience climactic change directly through changes to our water—its quality, its quantity, and its seasonality. In short, to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate in Canada, we have to start with water. The Liberal Party recognized ...

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