It came from money already allocated for first nations. So in effect what the first nations communities were worried about all along has come true, that money would be taken from valuable programs to help in terms of the systemic issues they have to deal with and put towards pandemic planning, which is really the responsibility of the federal government. Correct?
Can you tell me, then, what programs there are to reinvest in first nations communities, to help them deal with the difficult underlying conditions they're working with? Is there any attempt--any new money, any new programs--to assist in terms of the conditions that make them ripe for the spread of the pandemic, and where we continue to just repeat the same old problem?
To anybody: is this all we're going to get in terms of an answer on this?