Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 04/2015

Canada's Coming Property Insurance Crisis

Jason Thistlewaite

March 2015

Centre for International Governance Innovation

Abstract

In many areas across Canada, climate change will erode the conditions necessary for property insurance to remain available and affordable. This policy brief looks at the challenges facing the insurance system and presents policy recommendations aimed at sustaining and maximizing the insurance system and its benefits.