Feds earmark $2.8-billion to help clean up Calgary, southwestern Alberta’s flooded areas, Public Safety calls amount of money ‘notional’
But opposition MPs are questioning the amount considering Alberta’s oilsands wealth and the plight of 2,000 Manitoba First Nation evacuees still homeless after a 2011 flooding.
PARLIAMENT HILL—The federal government is paying out a record $2.8-billion to oil-rich Alberta in disaster assistance for the catastrophic flooding that hit Calgary and southwestern parts of the province last June.
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