VISION Canada · 2026 Edition

Every community in Canada, modelled to 2100.

VISION Canada links population, housing, water, climate and transportation projections into a single evidence base for infrastructure decisions. It answers one question at every scale from the country to the neighbourhood: where will demand outrun the systems we have built, and how much time is left to act.

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5,162 municipalities 57,936 dissemination areas 5 SSP pathways 2020–2100 in five-year steps 8 linked analyses

Canada in 2050, at a glance

Change from 2025 under the selected growth pathway. Every figure is read live from the same tables the dashboards use.

Growth pathway

Source: visualization_data/nia2_report2/story.json

The platform

Eight analyses on one design system and one data pipeline. Start anywhere — the scenario, geography and colour language carry across every page.

Sources & methods

What the evidence says right now

Five findings that recur across the analyses, under the central growth case.

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What the data covers

Geography Province → census division → municipality → dissemination area, plus drainage regions for water supply.
Time 2020 to 2100 in five-year steps; climate uses 30-year windows to 2071–2100.
Scenarios SSP1 through SSP5 for population and housing; CMIP6 SSP1-2.6 through SSP5-8.5 for climate.
Sources 2021 Census, StatCan projection tables, ClimateData.ca CanDCS-M6, OpenStreetMap network, CCPI 2022.

Recent updates

Version 2.0
Unified platform release One design system, persistent navigation and a shared narrative frame across all eight analyses. Archived and duplicate dashboards retired.
2026-07
Water stress extended to all of Canada Three-tier demand model with climate response now covers 13 provinces and territories at province, census division, municipality and drainage-region scale.
2026-07
NIA 2 metrics rebuilt Community metrics, commuting flows, water losses and cross-cutting pressure indices regenerated from the current pipeline, with quality flags surfaced in the interface.
2026-07
Combined risk composite Eight factors, seven preset planning lenses, change-since-2025 view and CSV export added to the integrated map.

Built for the people who sign the capital plan

Planners, engineers, municipal staff, provincial and federal agencies, and the policy makers who have to choose between projects. Every page states what is happening, why, where, and what decision it implies.

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