The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that the Liberal cabinet ministers are offering no apologies for the efforts that were made to lift Canadians to safety in the wake of hurricane Irma. The Globe's Gloria Galloway writes that commercial aircraft were used to fly 691 people from the region where the Category 5 hurricane levelled buildings and left people without food, power and running water for several days. Some of those who have returned, and some opposition members, have complained that Ottawa's response was both slow and inefficient. A planeload of those who lived through the disaster arrived at Toronto's Pearson airport Monday night, and the government says most of those Canadians who wanted to be evacuated from the Turks and Caicos and St. Maarten are now back in Canada and there was enough room on the planes to carry an additional 53 non-Canadians, most of them Americans. Transport Minister Marc Garneau said part of the delay in arranging for the Air Canada and WestJet flights to the islands affected by Irma was due to damage at the airports. The Canadian military has sent a large C-17 Globemaster cargo plane to the French Antilles loaded with relief supplies.