Ottawa quietly released its latest climate assessment on September 3, just before the Labor Day holiday, as reported by La Presse. The report, published every seven years by Canada’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, warns that if current climate trends continue, the country could experience an average temperature rise of 5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. The findings suggest that many changes driven by global warming, such as rising sea levels and extreme weather events, are largely irreversible, even if global temperatures stabilize. Over the past 75 years, Canada has already warmed by 2 degrees Celsius, and the report predicts an additional 3-degree increase by 2100 if current policies remain unchanged. According to Le Devoir, even if the world reaches carbon neutrality by 2075, the effects of climate change will still be severe. These include a near 50% increase in the area burned by forest fires and the potential loss of more than 75% of the glaciers in Western Canada. The Globe and Mail points out that since 1970, Canada has warmed at almost twice the global average, with the Arctic warming three times faster. Experts estimate a 50% chance that winter temperatures in Nunavut, a vast Arctic territory, could rise by 10 degrees Celsius by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial times. Human activity has "fundamentally altered our climate system," said Chris Derksen, one of the experts involved in the report. Alain Bourque, director of the Ouranos research consortium, told La Presse that "we are somewhat in another world." The current government has rolled back several climate policies introduced by previous administrations, including a plan to set emissions caps for the fossil fuel industry. Ryan Ness, director of adaptation research at the Canadian Climate Institute, warned in Le Devoir that the situation will worsen and that current adaptation efforts are not fast enough. The Globe and Mail highlights that failing to address climate change is more costly to the economy, and specialists are questioning when this reality will be fully recognized. In the past three weeks alone, more than 2 million people have been evacuated due to climate-related disasters in North America, Europe, and China. Christina Caron, who has worked with two Canadian prime ministers, and economist Glen Hodgson argue that climate change is reducing productivity, damaging infrastructure, and increasing the prices of essential goods like food. They emphasize that "it is now irrefutable that rapid climate measures will be much less costly than delaying them." According to the Canadian Climate Institute, as cited by La Presse, the economic costs of climate disruption in Canada could reach hundreds of billions of dollars annually by the end of the century.