Ottawa Studying Creation of Federal Agency to Respond to Disasters: Minister
Ottawa is studying options to start up a new federal agency for disaster response, similar to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), says Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan.
“This is something that I have been looking at for some time,” Sajjan said during an Aug. 12 virtual press conference to provide an update on wildfires, adding that using the military for disaster response is not the ideal strategy. -- More...
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