With the north having had a rainy summer so far this year, MP Niki Ashton is calling on Ottawa to step in on the negative impacts the weather is having on northern communities.

Ashton says the region has seen record rainfall, and that it's affecting northern infrastructure, especially roads and highways.

She also called out the provincial government, saying that the cuts they’ve made to the budget were “part of the problem”.

Ashton goes on to say many northerners rely on roads and highways to travel to and from their communities, and that federal disaster assistance must be made available to address the damage done to them by the weather conditions we’ve seen so far.