Ottawa assessing if other armed forces bases necessary to house evacuees from China

Some 373 Canadians have asked for help to return to Canada, says Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne.

Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne says Canada has secured a 'few dozen' spots on U.S. plane for Canadians asking to be repatriated from China. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY Palak Mangat

February 5, 2020

Ottawa is in the midst of assessing whether it will need more lodging to house the hundreds of Canadians being repatriated from Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, officials said Wednesday. Speaking to the...

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