Newfoundland and Labrador Earmarks $30 Million for Fiona Relief Fund

Newfoundland and Labrador Earmarks $30 Million for Fiona Relief Fund
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey tour the damage cause by post-tropical storm Fiona in Port aux Basques, N.L. on Sept. 28, 2022. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn
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Justin Trudeau met Wednesday with some of the distraught residents of Port aux Basques, N.L., while getting a close look at yet another coastal town shattered on the weekend by post-tropical storm Fiona.

Against a backdrop of collapsed houses and heaps of smashed plywood and other soaked debris, the prime minister listened as some residents told of their harrowing encounters with a storm that produced a record-setting storm surge and shrieking winds that reached 140-kilometres per hour or more.