How climate change reveals the fragility of B.C. transportation infrastructure

Almost no part of Canada’s transportation network is immune to the potential for floods or wildfires, blizzards or hurricanes or tornados, that snarl and kink and sever the supply chains that are supposed to bind and unite us.

Abbotsford, B.C., in November 2021. In our huge, sprawling, sparsely populated country, we are unusually susceptible to the impact of extraordinary weather events on our highways and rail lines, our sea ports and airports, writes Sen. Paula Simons. Photograph courtesy of the Province of B.C.

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR PAULA SIMONS

January 18, 2023

In mid-November 2021, the Fraser Valley and Sumas Prairie in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland were inundated by massive flooding. A so-called atmospheric river produced so much torrential rain that a number of B.C.’s terrestrial rivers, including the Nooksack, Chilliwac...

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