Thank you for that.
I'll start off and then I'll pass it on to my officials.
First of all, in terms of communications since April, early on there was daily communication with the Canadian population in terms of what we were learning about H1N1. The information I had is what I had shared with Canadians on a daily basis as we were dealing with H1N1 from April on. As we learned more about it, that changed to a weekly national media release to get that type of information out.
What was key in getting the information to communities was understanding what H1N1 was. How is it spread? How can you prevent it? That information was essential in terms of developing our communication strategy as we went forward to prevent the spread of it. As we're dealing with the fall, the information that we're going to gather in Winnipeg this week in terms of studying the cases that we have seen in this country, the more severe cases, the deaths, and what some of the underlying conditions were, that will further shape how we communicate to Canadians in the fall about who should be vaccinated and, if you're in one of these risk groups, to encourage you to get the vaccination. That information is essential for the fall, in addition to the prevention piece.
The other piece is to get vaccinated. That is key in managing this process in the fall. That will play into this, and we'll be communicating it to communities through the radio stations, through APTN, as an example, and aboriginal papers.
The other thing I said to my staff is that it has to be in the aboriginal languages. We have to get the information out in a language people can read. In Nunavut it's Inuktitut Inuinnaqtun, in the Northwest Territories it's Inuvialuktun, and there are the first nations communities as well. That will be key as we go forward in the fall in developing and managing the pandemic.
Perhaps you want to elaborate in terms of which organizations receive the information on that.