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How does the Government of Canada design its response to a natural disaster abroad?

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How does the Government of Canada design its response to a natural disaster abroad?

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Within hours of a natural disaster of a significant scale, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) convenes and chairs a meeting of a standing interdepartmental task force to share and assess important information and design an effective and coordinated Government of Canada response. The core members of the task force are the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Privy Council Office (PCO), the Department of National Defense (DND) and Public Safety Canada (PSC). In order to design an appropriate Government of Canada response to a given natural disaster, members of the task force bring together information and expertise to answer a number of questions about the humanitarian situation in the affected country.