During a press conference on Nova Scotia’s ongoing wildfires, Premier Tim Houston said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told him aid to the province following Hurricane Fiona was delayed because paperwork was improperly filled out.
“Once we’d kind of been through the urgency of the crisis, in my discussions with the prime minister, he looked me in the eye at one point and said that Nova Scotia didn’t fill out the proper forms, and that’s why the support hadn’t come as quickly,” Houston told reporters on June 1.
“I of course disagreed with that assessment, but suggested that even if that assessment were true, there’s a time to act and there’s a time to get more fulsome paperwork later. There was a time to act and it was missed.”…