As President Namiesniowski noted, we are working with health officials in the provinces and territories to assess the full capacity available of key assets, including ICU beds, ventilators and other essential assets, to work with them to ensure we have an understanding of their utilization. We're sharing best practices on the work each of them is doing as they manage their health systems.
As for creating additional space through cancelling elective surgery and moving patients who can be moved into alternate facilities, each jurisdiction has done that to allow for additional admission of patients with COVID symptoms. Provinces and territories are taking steps in creating wards for COVID patients and in other ways to minimize the donning and doffing of personal protective equipment to ensure proper infection prevention and control methods.
Through this work they are endeavouring, and we're providing additional support and resources, to ensure that alternate hospital facilities and assets can be deployed.