By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted October 9, 2024 1:21 pm
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Alberta curate urges improved effect astatine Jasper wildfire parliamentary hearing
Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault has been tasked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pb the national government’s stock of the enactment to rebuild Jasper, Alta.
In July, a wildfire destroyed one-third of the Rocky Mountain tourer town and displaced immoderate 2,000 residents.
In his caller relation Boissonnault volition beryllium liable for co-ordinating national resources with the Alberta government, Indigenous groups and the municipal government.
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Boissonnault says helium volition beryllium successful Jasper this week gathering with section officials to get a amended grasp of contiguous needs.
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He says 1 of the archetypal tasks volition beryllium to spot if the national authorities tin enactment Jasper successful establishing impermanent housing, which the state and municipality person been moving connected since August.
Trudeau besides appointed a radical of furniture ministers, including Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and Housing Minister Sean Fraser, to enactment Boissonnault.
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