{"id":115841,"date":"2017-09-04T02:51:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115841"},"modified":"2017-09-04T02:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:51:32","slug":"canadian-cargo-plane-departs-for-texas-as-part-of-post-harvey-relief-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/04\/canadian-cargo-plane-departs-for-texas-as-part-of-post-harvey-relief-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian cargo plane departs for Texas as part of post Harvey relief effort"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Pixabay<\/a>
In a statement, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said that Canada and the U.S. are there for each other in times of crisis, “like all good neighbours.” (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Canadian government sent a cargo plane loaded with humanitarian supplies to Texas on Sunday as part of a relief effort following the damage caused by hurricane Harvey.<\/p>\n

The plane, filled with supplies including baby formula, blankets and cribs, departed the Canadian Forces base in Trenton, Ont., for the Lackland Airforce base near San Antonio.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said that Canada and the U.S. are there for each other in times of crisis, “like all good neighbours.”<\/p>\n

The Ontario and\u00a0Quebec\u00a0governments are also chipping into to help with relief aid.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday about the floods and relief efforts, and the American embassy in Ottawa expressed gratitude for Canada’s offer of support.<\/p>\n

Hurricane Harvey forced about 750,000 people out of their homes, and over one million others are under a voluntary evacuation order along the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Canadian government sent a cargo plane loaded with humanitarian supplies to Texas on Sunday as part of a relief …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":113600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[19012,22797,9869,3070,22799,22801,22798,1572,22800],"class_list":["post-115841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-canadian-forces","tag-cargo-plane","tag-donald-trump","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-lackland-airforce","tag-minister-harjit-sajjan","tag-relief-effort","tag-texas","tag-trenton","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}