
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) predicts that by 2050 there will be 25 million to one billion persons forced to migrate due to climate change (Becklumb, 2010), yet there is a distinct lack of research on the ripple effect that climate disasters will cause in regard to internal migration throughout Canada. While Canada may become a refuge for global citizens experiencing climate induced displacement, Canadians could also be forced to migrate internally. This paper will analyze the effects of climate change in western Canada including the Canadian Prairies and British Columbia and will explore the impacts of climate migration. Due to the fact that the Canadian Prairies contain only 18% of the Canadian population (Statistics Canada, 2022) but have 80% of the country's farmland, small groups of the population are responsible for cultivating Canadian produce. With climate induced weather phenomena, this small population could be forced to move away from their farms and change their livelihoods to live in cities when their land becomes barren. For those without the comfort of financial capital, migration will be the only way they can adapt to the effects of the climate crisis (Dickson et. al., 2016). Provincial and Federal governments have currently not released adequate ac