The main measures of the financial assistance program are as follows:

• A flat-rate compensation of US$1,500 per primary residence evacuated on the recommendation or order of a competent authority.
• Québec will cover 100% of the additional costs incurred by communities that have taken action to evacuate citizens, set up and manage accommodation centers, restore premises, transport evacuated people, etc.
• Relief organizations that respond to disasters, notably the Association of Fire and Civil Security Managers of Quebec and the Red Cross, are reimbursed for a portion of their additional operational costs. For example, we are talking about the costs of coordinating firefighting operations or the additional costs that arise from replacing municipal firefighters who help the municipalities.

From June 14thEvacuees can submit their claim through the website quebec.ca/assistance-sinister, (new window) Public Security Minister François Bonnardel said during a press conference on Friday morning.

Ottawa will compensate indigenous communities

For First Nations people who remain in the communitywhether it be Indigenous Services Canada, which is responsible for compensation, said First Nations and Inuit Relations Minister Ian Lafrenière.

The latter tried to reassure her by explaining that he had spoken to the Federal Minister for Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu, in the morning and that she had confirmed this to him First Nations are not forgotten and that in Ottawa we will also be able to compensate for them (new window).

At least 15,000 people have had to be evacuated from their homes in Quebec in recent days.

More than 140 fires are still active in the Quebec forests (new window)accordingly Forest Fire Protection SocietySOPFEU. More than 876,000 hectares of forest were destroyed by the flames in Quebec, 18 times the area of ​​the island of Montreal.