MPs, experts say costs linked to frequency of wildfires, severity of weather events to increase without more climate action

According to senior climatologist David Phillips, 184,493 sq km of woodland went up in smoke across Canada in 2023—the equivalent of nearly one and a half times the size of the Maritime provinces.
The Ottawa area, including Gatineau, Que., was engulfed in smoke last summer as wildfires raged across the country in a record-breaking year.

Following the most destructive wildfire season ever recorded that saw many parts of the country cloaked in smoke, the warmest summer in more than three quarters of a century, and major flooding damage to property last year, MPs and experts say these events are not only costl...

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