Feds won’t help provinces for disaster compensation if housing built in flood areas
The federal environment minister is warning that Ottawa will not provide disaster compensation where a province deliberately allows housing to be built in areas prone to flooding.
The Progressive Conservative government has proposed removing land from 15 different areas of the Greenbelt so that 50,000 homes can be built, while adding acres elsewhere.He says some of the lands where housing or commercial development is being proposed are in floodplains, and flooding is the top climate change cost in Canada.Guilbeault says governments need to understand the scale of climate change effects and the need to better prepare Canadians to face them.
Premier Doug Ford had previously promised he wouldn’t touch the protected land, but his government now says the plan to open up the Greenbelt will help with its goal of building 1.5 million homes in 10 years.
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