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IBC Unveils Three-Point Plan to Build Climate Resilience at NICC 2025

November 3, 2025 | By: Christina Friend-Johnston, Manager, Communications, IBC
IBC President and CEO, Celyeste Power -NICC 2025

At this year’s National Insurance Conference of Canada (NICC), IBC President and CEO, Celyeste Power, delivered a powerful keynote address on what it will take to better protect Canadians from the growing impacts of severe weather.

Power said we’ve all seen the warning signs – the storms, the devastation, lives lost, homes destroyed, the heartache, trauma and economic impact caused by catastrophic weather events. She then posed the question – when will governments act collaboratively to better protect Canadians?

As part of the presentation and response to that question, Power unveiled IBC’s new three-point resilience plan and outlined the key priorities for governments aimed at better protecting communities across the country.

Watch her full keynote and learn more about IBC’s strategy to protect vulnerable communities via its new report, State of the home insurance Market: Healthy but Pressure is Building.

About the authors

Christina Friend-Johnston is a communications manager at at Insurance Bureau of Canada focusing on Atlantic Canada, federal and cyber advocacy files. She has over 20 years of strategic communications experience, through government, non-profit and financial services organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Windsor, a post-graduate certificate in Public Relations from TMU and a Master of Communications Management degree from McMaster University.