Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Quebec's Iles-de-la-Madeleine Thursday, promising federal support for the archipelago hammered by post-tropical storm Fiona last weekend.
Trudeau met with acting mayor Gaetan Richard and with fishers, seniors and small business owners. The federal government, Trudeau said, will partner with Quebec to help people affected by the storm, which made landfall Saturday and brought hurricane-force winds.
“The reality is that we are going to see more and more intense storms in the years to come …. We will have to adapt our infrastructures,” he told reporters by the water's edge in Havre-Aubert, Que. Trudeau acknowledged it was a close call for fishers at the Pointe-Basse wharf, where many boats remained docked during the storm because a defective crane prevented them from being removed from the water.
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