This is Geikie Street in Jasper, Alta., in a photo released by Parks Canada on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024.
Canada's emergency preparedness minister says he's looking abroad for ideas as he works to create a national disaster relief agency.Destroyed buildings are shown on Geikie Street in Jasper, Alta. in the aftermath of a wildfire that burned about a third of the town last month. Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan says he's looking abroad for ideas as he works to create a national disaster relief agency.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan says he's looking to other countries for ideas on how to set up a disaster response agency. Sajjan said FEMA works well for the U.S. but that model may not be the best fit for Canada; he did not say why. Any new Canadian emergency response agency would require buy-in from provinces and territories, he said, because they have primary responsibility for disaster relief.
Although Sajjan said he hopes to visit Germany to learn more about their model in the fall, his office confirmed that a trip has not been scheduled yet. "The idea behind that is very, very beneficial when you think of it, because it creates, proactively, what you need to have in communities to be ready to act when things go wrong," Cohen told CBC News.
"Each unit is trained exactly the same way, with exactly the same equipment, so that you can have surge capacity whenever you need it," Cohen said.
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