The B.C. government’s 10-year flood strategy to reduce risks worsened by climate change will need to be backstopped with billions of dollars, but local governments are being told there is no money.

When Metro Vancouver representatives met this month with Randene Neill, B.C.’s minister of water, land and resource stewardship, and Kelly Greene, the minister of emergency management and climate readiness, they were told there is no new funding for the flood strategy because of the province’s tight fiscal position.

This week, the B.C. government announced that this year’s ballooning operating deficit has grown to $11.6 billion.

Lisa Dominato, the chairwoman of Metro Vancouver’s air quality and climate change committee, shared the “sobering” news with local politicians on the committee a

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