It's so nice to see you too, MP Zann. When I saw your little square, I realized that we hadn't seen each other in a long, long time. I hope you're doing well.
Thank you for asking about the Canadian military. Truly, they have been heroes throughout this pandemic. In fact, we called on them early, as you know, to help out in long-term care. Indeed, not only did they help but they also discovered some atrocities that were occurring due to lack of capacity in those homes to care for elders. We will be forever grateful. I think all Canadians will be for the incredible compassionate care they provided seniors at a time of particular need.
We also heavily leaned on the Canadian Armed Forces to help with the logistics and planning with regard to how to move millions and millions of doses of vaccines to provinces and territories. In the early days we did a lot of role-playing and tabletop exercises with provinces and territories to make sure that people were ready to deliver and manage and store them appropriately.
The military continues to be there for us whenever we need them during this pandemic response. Indeed, they've helped out. For example, Canadian rangers in northern Ontario and other parts of the country have helped with immunizing remote indigenous communities, something that is not easy in this country of ours, which presents such a geographical barrier.
We will be forever grateful to the Canadian military for helping in such a time of need, and I think it's what Canadians think of when they think of the Canadian military service—the men and women and their selflessness in stepping up in these times.