B.C. has received less than 20% of federal funds promised for 2021 flooding, landslides
More than a year after flooding, landslides and extreme weather caused billions of damage in B.C. November 2021, the province is still waiting on the bulk of federal support.
The Office of the Auditor General pegs the response and recovery from the effects of the historic atmospheric river at $3.5 billion, a figure that represents more than 50 per cent of all the estimated costs for all weather-related disasters in the past 20 years combined. By the end of March 2022, the province received $824 million — or 18 per cent — of the $4.475 billion in federal support. The payment was part of a larger federal payment of $870 million received in July 2022. Emergency Management BC and the ministry of public safety expects to receive a further $557 million before March 31.B.C. is eligible for federal support under a program administered by Public Safety Canada.
Federal program guidelines allow EMBC to ask for upfront payments of up to 50 per cent based on reasonable estimates of future costs.Summer 2021 also brought destructive wildfires to the province. Federal supports for those events topped $307 million and so far B.C. has received $207 million — or 67 per cent — as of June 2022.
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