Canada’s water security strategy starts with the Canada Water Agency

The newly formed agency offers Ottawa a tool to deliver, but it must be empowered with a clear mandate and the resources to match.

Steven Guilbeault, left, who is now official languages minister and is a former environment minister, and current Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin at a press conference in the West Block on Oct. 2, 2024. Dabrusin is now the minister in charge of the Canada Water Agency. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY THOMAS S. AXWORTHY

September 1, 2025

For generations, Canadians took water for granted. We are blessed with lakes, rivers, and glaciers that make us one of the most water-abundant nations on Earth. Yet in the twenty-first century, abundance is not the same as security. Fires, floods, and droughts are turning wa...

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