{"id":711079,"date":"2026-06-03T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:06:13","slug":"winnipeg-mp-calls-out-neglect-of-manitoba-wildfire-evacuees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711079\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg MP calls out &#8216;neglect&#8217; of Manitoba wildfire evacuees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Centre MP Leah Gazan\u00a0is criticizing the federal government over what she calls a lengthy delay in responding to concerns about wildfire evacuees.<\/p>\n<p>Gazan\u00a0says she wrote to Indigenous Services Canada in July of last year, during Manitoba\u2019s historic wildfire season, raising concerns about the safety and well-being\u00a0of evacuees displaced to Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Gazan says she did not hear back until last week, nearly 10 months later. With thousands of Manitobans gearing up to once again be potentially displaced this summer, Gazan\u00a0says more needs to be done to support evacuees and ensure their safety while away from their home communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be major investment in local mental health supports, recreation supports, proper transportation for evacuees to get them around the city. There needs to be security, but it needs to be security that is chosen by the impacted communities and the wildfire season. They need funding for that. And evacuees also need to be provided with the financial resources they need to survive in the city,\u201d said Gazan.<\/p>\n<p>CityNews reached out to Indigenous Services Canada and Minister Mandy Gull-Masty\u00a0for comment but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778261834_283_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Centre MP Leah Gazan\u00a0is criticizing the federal government over what she calls a lengthy delay in responding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-711079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}