In the age of dangerous weather caused by climate change, governments across Canada should be preparing to combat expected increases in extreme weather.

Not Doug Ford’s government.

Areas along the Ottawa River are experiencing massive flooding, with one person dying in Quebec after her vehicle fell into a stream due to a washed away culvert.

Meanwhile, Doug Ford’s Government announced on Thursday that they will be cutting Conservation Ontario’s budget by 50%, an organization dedicated to reducing the impact of flooding.

Conservation Ontario is responsible for 36 conservation authorities who forecast flooding, regulate development activities in flood plains, educate the public about flooding, and protect natural environments and areas that reduce the impacts of floods.

Ford’s cuts come months after a report from the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo that pegged climate-fuelled flooding as Canada’s costliest and fastest-growing weather challenge.

As flooding increases in Ottawa, people took to social media to express outrage at Ford’s cuts.

As the spring thaw & extreme weather events occur, thank- goodness @fordnation hasn’t cut the funding for flood management programs…oh, wait…. he did – by 50%. #onpoli https://t.co/7hIAQIJlC9 — Stacey Wallwin ?? (@WallwinS) April 21, 2019

Doug Ford: quick we need to find a new way to make the unrealistic buck-a-beers happen. Let’s cut the flood relief funding we never use that



TWN: flooding worse than two years ago expected across Ontario



Doug Ford: pic.twitter.com/MFDDpPnwPC — Foxtrot ???? (@IAmFSJones) April 21, 2019