English subtitles for clip: File:Premier talks Fort McMurray at Western Premiers' Conference kick-off.webm

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Just got off the phone with Premier Notley who is obviously not here because

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she is managing this crisis in Alberta and I expressed her on British Columbia's behalf

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all of the premiers behalfs how willing we all are to be there to

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support Alberta in this time of need. One of the things that Alberta has asked

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of British Columbia and I think other provinces, is that we offer our help on

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the social service side in particular.

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So for people who are finding their way to service centers because they don't

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have friends and family that who are close enough for them to stay with they need

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counseling help, they may need healthcare assistance and other kinds of

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assistance so we are right now beginning to identify how we can send some folks

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over to Alberta on the social service side to help people who are finding

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their way out of Fort McMurray don't have friends and family and need our

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help and we will be calling on social workers, health workers who'd like to

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step up and help to be able to go over to Alberta for a four or a five day stint at a

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time to support Albertans in that we want to be there to support the people

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of Alberta in this nightmare time that they're experiencing and for British

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Columbia where we've got 48 fires burning it's really difficult for us to

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be able to support in terms of the kinds of firefighting resources that we

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normally would like to but we can help in other areas and we're going to help

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with that, and that call is just going out now to our to our civil servants to see who

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we can send across the border to support people in Alberta that need that help

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right now. This is the first thing on our agenda today as the Premiers get

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together in a few minutes

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to be talking about what we can do to support folks in Fort McMurray in Alberta.

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It's the number one thing on all of our minds and I think on the minds of all

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Canadians right now.