Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday that Canadian Armed Forces personnel are actively engaged in combating forest fires to safeguard communities as fires rage in the Prairies and Northern Ontario. “In fact, members from here are in Sandy Lake as we speak,” Carney said during a press conference at Fort York, Toronto.
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