Only four times in the past decade have provinces turned to the federal treasury for help to move homes – twice in New Brunswick, and once each in Quebec and Yukon
In New Brunswick’s case, the federal government picked up more than 80 per cent of the $1.8-million spent to buy out a combined 36 properties after flooding in 2008 and 2010.
All that data will feed into a debate governments are having about whether it’s better to move people off floodplains rather than repeatedly pay for repairs. How much gets doled out depends on the design of the buyout program, which has become a point in discussions between Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and his provincial and territorial counterparts.A program could provide money up to a pre-set maximum, which is what Quebec’s government is offering this year – up to $200,000 to anyone with severe damage to their homes. Or it could pay the full estimated value of a home before it was flooded, as Alberta did after flooding there in 2013.
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