investigation: looking ahead - fairness in a changing climate - Fairness in a changing climate: Ensuring disaster

Particularly after 2017 and 2018, the potential harms of extreme weather and of overwhelmed support programs were foreseeable, and the province should have been better prepared.241 Finding 9: The Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness does not have adequate provincial plans and resources in place to meet the needs of people experiencing the impacts of extreme weather and to respond. [...] Climate change collaboration, and recovery supports for the planning continued with the release of the people impacted.248 CleanBC Roadmap to 2030 in October 2021, and the Climate Preparedness and Addressing the New Normal, in particular, Adaptation Strategy in June 2022. [...] The council cultural and archeological sites that need also emphasized that Elders and Knowledge preservation.288 Keepers who have a connection with the land through generations can share knowledge on In 2019, the First Nations Leadership the state of the land or what a fire or flood will Council, the province and the federal do to the land. [...] For example, a key finding in a report management legislation is critical to on the 2017 Elephant Hill wildfire was that a addressing reconciliation and the right of self- lack of prevention contributed to the event.298 determination in the context of emergency The report further highlighted how a lack of management.291 The provincial government coordination with First Nations communities has comm. [...] The honour of the Crown obligates government to consult with In our investigation, we also heard about and accommodate Indigenous Peoples in the value of FNESS involvement and the relation to administrative decision-making.304 importance of Indigenous-led response, as The province has acknowledged that it described earlier in our report.