Our Investigative Approach - Fairness in a changing climate: Ensuring disaster supports are accessible, equitable and adaptable

We reviewed and assessed How we investigated the records and information provided by EMBC that addressed the administration of Our investigation pursued several lines of ESS and DFA generally and in the specific inquiry and drew on multiple sources of contexts of the extreme weather events of information to develop an understanding of 2021. [...] During this of 2021, and we met with leadership and/ period, the province continued to respond or personnel from the City of Merritt, the to the COVID-19 pandemic, which also City of Vernon, the City of Kamloops, the had impacts on how ESS could be safely City of Kelowna, the City of Vancouver, the delivered. [...] literature review identified themes related to During the investigation, we travelled the impacts on physical, emotional and mental traditional and unceded territory of the health; housing; livelihoods; education; Scw’exmx and the Nłeʔkepmx Tmíxʷ, access to post-disaster assistance and including communities along the Nicola and Fairness in a changing climate: Ensuring disaster supports are accessi. [...] Over the course of the investigation, we continued to search for and review grey literature from BC and Canada on the 2021 events and related topics, including displacement, climate-change planning and impacts, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, emergency management, flood risks and insurance, disproportionate impacts, and impacts on and leadership by Indigenous Peoples. [...] We also scanned local and national media for coverage related to the extreme weather events of 2021 in BC, including coverage of the events, response and recovery, ESS and DFA, other financial assistance, the role of insurance, and stories of lived experience.