Thank you for that question. In Manitoba, for example, the regional director wrote to the chiefs of all the communities and in that letter informed the chief of the information and of where the information was obtained for each community. The information was obtained most often not from the chief but in fact from another individual, a person working in the health field or specifically in pandemic preparedness. That's where the information was from.
We requested them to express concern about the plans and readiness, given that information. In fact, I think we got just one response, which was negative, in relation to this. We have made efforts to confirm the information we had from certain individuals in the communities about that level of preparedness, and then we continue to offer assistance.
The challenge is the assessment of what is meant by preparedness, realizing that having a plan is not an assurance of preparedness necessarily and therefore doing exercises, but also visiting those communities that are of concern in terms of their ability to respond, which is what has been taking place in Manitoba.