This isn’t a natural disaster. It’s a policy failure

Driving through the back roads from Ottawa to Toronto in April felt unsettling in a way that is difficult to describe until you see it for yourself. Entire stretches of roads were overwhelmed with water. Fields had turned into temporary lakes. Rivers and lakes pushed beyond their banks, swallowing entire homes and businesses. Across Ontario and Quebec, municipalities declared states of emergency as floodwaters displaced residents and strained already fragile infrastructure. What struck me most was not simply the scale of the flooding, but how familiar the official response sounded. Once again…