Join the 2025-26 Action Canada Fellows for an engaging conversation on innovative policy solutions for climate resiliency in Canada.
The Fellows will be presenting the insights they gained and the recommendations that emerged, after 10-months of interviews, consultations, and research across the country.
The event will feature three brief presentations followed by a Q&A session, open to both in-person and virtual participants. Following the Q&A, breakout discussions will take place simultaneously for both in-person and virtual attendees, with Fellows from each task force leading the conversations around their reports.
Summaries of the Reports:
A National Household Resilience Strategy for Canada
Canada now faces billion-dollar disasters every year as climate change intensifies. In 2024, insured losses reached $8.5 billion, while households paid far more out of pocket. Help exists, but is often disjointed and complex, placing the burden on individual households to pick up the pieces. This report proposes a National Household Resilience Strategy that centers the experience of Canadian households. It supports households at four key moments: choosing a home, buying insurance, protecting it, and recovering after disaster. More disasters are coming. What we build today determines whether households will deal with them alone, or whether they are informed and protected.
Resiliency Beyond the Flames: A First Nation Perspective on Wildfire Preparedness and Recovery
Wildfires, intensified by climate change, are causing evacuations that disproportionately impact northern First Nations communities in Canada, resulting in significant social, cultural, and economic harms. Emergency needs in First Nations communities are shaped by distinct cultural, geographic, linguistic, and historical contexts, yet emergency management systems fall short, as funding, infrastructure deficits, and jurisdictional fragmentation limit timely responses and integration of Indigenous knowledge and leadership. Through a community-centred approach, this project identified key gaps in emergency planning, coordination, funding, culturally relevant supports, and post-evacuation recovery. Case studies of Rez Cross and Turtle Team showcase Indigenous-led models grounded in community care and inform the policy recommendations presented.
Flipping the Switch: Modernizing Canada’s Electrical Grid for a Climate-Resilient Future
Canada’s electricity system is facing mounting pressure from extreme weather caused by climate change and rapidly growing demand driven by electrification. This report argues that grid resilience cannot rely solely on large, centralized generation projects and instead requires rapid grid modernization. Through case studies of Summerside, PEI and Essex Powerlines in Ontario, it demonstrates how local generation, demand flexibility, and digital tools can improve reliability, lower costs, and support economic growth. It identifies regulatory lag as a key barrier and presents actionable recommendations to empower households, enable community-scale solutions, and align utility incentives to build a climate-resilient grid this decade.