The government of Canada continues to be ready to deploy both human resources and other kinds of services as requested.
It is going to take a very long time for them to be able to resume their lives and even in some cases I'm sure determine whether they want to return to homes that have been largely destroyed or whether they want to start over somewhere else.
People here in Canada, especially in Atlantic Canada because of that Acadian connection, felt that 'well, maybe we could take some of these people in, especially the children. We could offer them a place of temporary refuge,' .
It's a completely different universe. We're safer today, but the world in which we live is more complex.
If the requests continue, we will continue to meet them. Provinces will probably also step up to the plate with their emergency stockpiles.
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States.
That is something we've indicated we'll take a look at and will talk to our American colleagues about.
Yesterday, the Department of Human Health Services in the U.S. contacted our public health agency and asked for an inventory of emergency supplies that, if they need them, we could send at a moment's notice.
We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs.
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