e/Disaster Assistance Response Team

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has gloss	eng: The Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) is a rapidly deployable team of 200 Canadian Forces personnel to provide assistance to disaster-affected regions for up to 40 days. DARTs headquarters is in Kingston, Ontario. DART was created by the Canadian government in Autumn of 1996 in response to an inadequate response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Canadas aid arrived after the peak of a cholera epidemic. The government determined that it would be of utmost importance in many disasters to be able to rapidly deploy a group of people until long-term aid arrived. DART is currently commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Michael R. Voith. DART has an annual budget of CAD$500,000, though during specific incidents, Parliament can choose to temporarily allocate millions of dollars to DART to fund their response effort. For example, Operation Torrent, the aid mission to Turkey in the wake of the 1999 earthquake which left 17,000 people dead, saw CAD$15 million used by DART in the response.
lexicalization	eng: Disaster Assistance Response Team
instance of	c/Canadian Forces