Interdepartmental Task Force

interdepartmental task force: The summary, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act, flowed from a February 2014 meeting of interdepartmental task force members who had grappled with the horrors that unfolded in Kenya five months earlier, according to The Waterloo Record. On Sept. 21, 2013, al-Shabab gunmen attacked the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. The internal review also called for re-examination of the overall plan for responding to critical incidents overseas involving federal personnel, says a summary of the findings. Among those murdered in the assault was Annemarie Desloges, a Citizenship and Immigration Canada foreign service officer on assignment with the Canada Border Services Agency at the high commission. Upon learning a federal employee may have been a casualty in the attack, the Security and Emergency Management Bureau of Foreign Affairs convened an interdepartmental task force meeting at noon eastern time, just under five hours after headquarters was alerted. Vancouver businessman Naguib Damji was also killed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.