An Act to establish a national strategy respecting flood and drought forecasting

Bill C-317 was a Liberal Private Member's Bill establishing a federal national strategy respecting flood and drought management. Brought after the 2021 BC atmospheric-river flooding (the most expensive natural disaster in BC history at $9.7 billion in damages per Insurance Bureau of Canada), the 2023 wildfire season (18.5 million hectares burned, the worst on record), and the 2024 spring drought across the Prairies. The bill called for federal-provincial-territorial coordination on flood-and-drought-risk mapping, expanded federal Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund (DMAF, $3.4 billion over 13 years through Infrastructure Canada), and a binding National Adaptation Strategy reporting framework (the federal National Adaptation Strategy was released November 2023 with $1.6 billion in 2024 budget funding).