The Tłı̨chǫ government is working to track down citizens who were sent all over western Canada when Yellowknife was evacuated due to a wildfire last week.
Tłı̨chǫ Grand Chief Jackson Lafferty said he’s frustrated that his government wasn’t told where Tłı̨chǫ evacuees would end up.
'It's a nightmare, and right now a lot of families are worried,' said Monfwi MLA Jane Weyallon Armstrong of Tłı̨chǫ citizens who got lost in the shuffle of last week's massive evacuation of Yellowknife. In Tuesday evening's press conference on the territory's wildfire situation, Premier Caroline Cochrane said the government is working to identify N.W.T. residents who are homeless and have addictions, and eventually bring them back to the territory."We'll have to work with private shelters down south, through the privacy commissioner as well, because people didn't identify, we didn't ask them when they registered, 'Are you homeless?'" she said.
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