Canada’s freshwater: a call for proactive climate-ready infrastructure investment

When a watershed is healthy and maintained, it can minimize climate change risk, support local wildlife populations, clean drinking water, and increase disaster resiliency.

As the federal government develops the Canadian Water Agency, we can look to British Columbia’s co-developed watershed security strategy and fund as a model for the rest of Canada, writes Bonita Zarrillo. Photograph courtesy of the Province of British Columbia

Opinion

BY NDP MP BONITA ZARRILLO

October 4, 2023

Once again this spring and summer, Canadians have experienced the extreme and harmful effects of wildfires and flooding due to climate change. It was the longest and worst wildfire and drought season on record, claiming lives, causing loss of homes and crops, and challenging...

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