Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, officials, and I second that.
I'm really struggling. I'm struggling because I hear we want to stay the course, and in saying that, I think we've moved slowly on some issues. The reason I say this is that in the spring, when there was real trouble in Manitoba, we would have liked, Madam Minister, to see you go to those communities. I would have liked to see some attempt at slowing down the spread of the virus. We knew from Mexico that some communities were more at risk. We know about it in first nations communities, as was outlined today, but in the spring we knew, for those same reasons, that they were at risk.
I would like to know how long the average length of hospital stay was in first nations communities, if they went down to Winnipeg, and how long they were on respirators compared to people in the rest of Canada. That is my first question.
I will ask the second question as well. I would really like to see a spreadsheet by province showing the first nations and Inuit communities, how many have a plan, some idea of the extent of that plan, and who has seen it. Is it at the start, the middle, or is it finished? If they have a plan, has it been tested? Have they ordered supplies?
We have been to communities where they didn't even know that you could order supplies. They haven't started their plans. If they do have supplies, it's not good enough to get a box of supplies with no labels.