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Approximately 1,650 troops have been deployed to help with severe flooding in Quebec, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan confirmed Monday afternoon.

The federal government has also supplied 250,000 additional sandbags from the Canadian Armed Forces stockpile to fight flooding in Ontario after the provincial government ran out.

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Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said his department is contacting private-sector suppliers for additional sandbags, should they become necessary.

As of Monday, 1,520 people had been evacuated from their homes in Quebec, Goodale said.

Though southern Quebec has been hit hardest, there has been flooding in many parts of the country in recent days, including the St. John River in New Brunswick, the Gaspé peninsula in Quebec, parts of eastern Ontario and interior British Columbia.

Ottawa agreed to send military personnel to Quebec as soon as the provincial government made the request on Friday.