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Toronto Deputy Mayor, Norm Kelly, has confirmed that his office is “exploring” in what way the Canadian military can assist the city during its $75-million cleanup from December’s devastating ice storm. According to Kelly, his office made preliminary calls to “mid-level” representatives at the Department of Defence on Friday, which mainly aimed about what the military could do to assist the cleanup, estimated to take between six to eight weeks.
Mr. Kelly alleged that “when I learned from staff it was going to take nearly two months to clear the debris … I thought ‘What would be the next available source of manpower?’ and I think that’s the army.’” Furthermore, he added on Friday that “I think it’s important right now to clean up this mess as quickly as possible. I’m not saying ‘call in the army.’” Kelly also explained that “its exploratory phone calls to see what could be available and what protocol could be invoked to formally request the assistance of the armed forces.”
In addition to that, Kelly also alleged that “we’re going to have a lot of debris hanging around for two months… and if we can use the army in one fashion or another to shorten that time and look after our parks to make them safer rather than wait two months to do that, why not look at the options.” Additionally, Kelly also wants to find out the process, in case another storm hits Toronto while the two month cleanup effort is underway.
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