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Raises questions about whether communities are ready

MANITOULIN—Canada has traditionally advised its communities, infrastructure and institutions around the promise of a relatively stable climate. Now, the climate is changing faster than the machinery of government was built to respond to it. A sweeping new federal scientific assessment released September 3 finds that some of the changes subliminally sensed by many are already underway in Canada’s climate and are effectively irreversible within the boundaries of human timescales.

The  2026 National Adaptation Strategy Report  alongside the federal 2026 National Adaptation Strategy Progress Report released by the federal government on September 3, — ts second revision since 2019—elicited the following comment from Ryan Ness, Director of Adaptation at the Canadian Climate Institute

“Ottawa’s update on its National Adaptation Strategy documents a good deal of activity—but little sign that any of it is actually reducing the escalating climate and extreme weather risks that Canadians face. This summer’s catastrophic wildfires that have destroyed communities, forced thousands to evacuate, and shrouded cities in toxic smoke are the latest signal that Canada must accelerate climate adaptation.