The MP overseeing Canada's foreign aid announced $7 million in humanitarian relief for Caribbean states hit by Hurricane Melissa on Thursday.

Randeep Sarai, secretary of state for international development, says $5 million will go to life-saving help through emergency response agencies and health providers.

The other $2 million will go to the United Nations World Food Program to support its efforts to distribute food and other supplies to Jamaica.

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Sarai says Canada is prepared to deploy relief supplies from its emergency stockpile through the Red Cross, if countries request that help.

He says Ott

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