Former CAO says Niagara Falls needs help with evacuees in the city

06/25/2026 at 09:42 AM
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Officials in Niagara Falls want to see changes in the way Indigenous evacuees are offered help.

Former chief administrative officer Ken Todd says currently there are roughly 11-hundred evacuees being housed in local hotel rooms and that is straining services.

He says at a bare minimum the city should be offered financial help from upper levels of government.

Todd says upper levels of government really should be looking for a purpose-built evacuation centre that can be used in these circumstances.

Last year Niagara Falls housed nearly 5-thousand people from First Nations communities that were displaced by wildfires.