{"id":623030,"date":"2026-04-23T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623030\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:05:08","slug":"ottawa-casts-doubt-on-timetable-for-canadas-national-flood-insurance-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623030\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa casts doubt on timetable for Canada\u2019s national flood insurance scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, communities in several provinces were under flood warnings, with areas near Sudbury, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec, declaring states of emergency. A 2022 report by Canada\u2019s Task Force on Flood Insurance and Relocation estimated the average annual cost of residential flooding at about $2.97 billion, including both insured and uninsured losses. The task force\u2019s wider analysis suggested flooding has caused roughly $1.5 billion in damage each year to households, property and infrastructure, with residential property owners bearing around three\u2011quarters of uninsured losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, communities in several provinces were under flood warnings, with areas near Sudbury, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,3622,233658,20739],"class_list":["post-623030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-flood","tag-olszewski","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}