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Trudeau announces $300M Fiona relief fund

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $300 million fund today to help post-tropical storm Fiona recovery efforts in the East Coast.

The fund will also be used to rebuild to withstand future damage.

Trudeau made the announcement in Dartmouth, N.S. where he said the fund will provide assistance over the next two years.

Trudeau also said the fund will go toward cleaning up fishing gear, ensuring the safety of navigation and protecting marine wildlife.

The goal is to distribute the money quickly through local offices, which will work with other federal agencies. He adds civil servants won’t wait for “all receipts to be in” before disbursing funds.

“We need to get the money to families as quickly as possible, especially with winter coming,” Trudeau said.

“We’ve gotten much better at rolling out disaster assistance, whether its been the historic flooding we saw in British Columbia just recently, whether it was more and increasing wildfires, whether it was heat waves … we are seeing more intense, extreme weather events because of climate change.”

The money will also go toward homeowners whose residences are being rebuilt and to those who don’t have insurance to pay for the replacement of their dwellings.

The storm hit the region on Sept. 24.

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