25 June 2018, Calgary – Officials of the Philippine Consulate General (PCG) in Calgary and the Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) recently met to establish a working arrangement to help assist Filipino nationals affected by natural calamities and other emergency situations in Calgary.

 

Consul General Gilberto Asuque and Deputy Consul General Zaldy Patron met with CEMA Chief Tom Sampson and Deputy Chief Susan Henry on 22 June 2018 and discussed with them the PCG’s mandate to assist the Filipino nationals in times of natural calamity and emergency situation in coordination with local government officials. Consul General Asuque informed the CEMA officials of the estimated 75,000 Filipinos and Filipino-Canadians residing in Calgary whom the PCG will assist in times of a general emergency.

The CEMA officials briefed the PCG officials how it operates and assured them of the agency’s readiness to coordinate and work with the PCG on its task to assist Filipinos and Filipino-Canadians when a natural calamity or emergency situation occurs in Calgary.