That's local management—they got orders from provincial management in l'Agence de la santé. So that's our reality. In that same week, our firefighters heard that in Montreal or another part of the province they got their vaccines.
In dealing with a real pandemic situation, not just an epidemic, communication is really important. It's the front line of action, and we need leadership from l'Agence de la santé publique du Canada to give a clear message to everyone about the order in which they're going to do the vaccinations. I'm just talking about vaccinations, and that's where the firefighters were uncomfortable. They needed reassurance as front-line workers in the medical field.
We had to go as far as screening out and telling the local Agence de la santé that we would not answer if there was fever and H1N1 symptoms. We had to go that far to protect our personnel. Don't forget that every leader in the fire department has obligations, and one of those is to put everything in place so the workers are safe, and that's where the Canadian government, or the provincial government, did not go far enough. That's where we should have been more specific.