The federal government is studying options for creating a new national disaster response agency.
season in history and after governments once again had to call on the military to step in and help.smoke is blanketing large swaths of that province and eastern and southern Ontario.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to update Canadians on the fire situation Wednesday afternoon.
“We continue to work with it. ... As we know, climate change is going to bring more extreme weather events in the future, more dangerous floods, more difficult and devastatings, more intense hurricanes and storms. We are going to need to continue to step up in our support for Canadians.” There are other options also on the table. The discussions include Trudeau and multiple departments and ministers, including Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.
The military has warned that calling upon it for help in a disaster should be the last ditch response after all other options are exhausted. There have been more than 2,300 fires in Canada this year to date, burning more than 10 times the average amount of land by this point in the year. More than 120,000 Canadians have been forced from their homes at some point this spring, and thousands remain evacuated today.
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