Issue
Climate Adaptation & Disaster Response
Federal flood- and wildfire-resilient infrastructure, disaster recovery, climate-adaptation funding to provinces, and the role of the Canadian Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements.
Where parties stand
Compare side-by-side- Bloc QuébécoisBLOC
Backs higher adaptation funding routed unconditionally through provinces, especially for the lower St. Lawrence and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean regions facing accelerated erosion.
- Conservative Party of CanadaCONSERVATIVE
Supports adaptation funding but wants DFAA payouts conditional on provincial floodplain-mapping compliance. Would expand wildfire-suppression aviation fleet.
Wants the federal government to declare climate emergency-level adaptation funding with statutory annual increases, mandatory municipal climate-risk disclosure, and a National Adaptation Commissioner.
- Liberal Party of CanadaLIBERAL
Maintains the National Adaptation Strategy ($2B Adaptation Fund). Reformed the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements to faster payouts and explicit climate-attribution funding.
Wants the Adaptation Fund doubled, a National Flood Insurance Program (publicly-administered), and statutory adaptation-spending floors tied to federal climate-target reporting.