Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks with First Nations leaders and delegates at the File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada on April 26, 2016. REUTERS/David Stobbe
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who cracked a joke in his first public remarks after a huge wildfire in Fort McMurray, on Thursday adopted a serious tone and promised that Ottawa would do all it could do help.
Trudeau, facing the first major natural disaster since his Liberals took power last November, told the House of Commons that the devastated Alberta town looked "like a war-torn corner of the world instead of our own backyard."
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