It took a long time to deliver the necessary protective equipment to all the communities. It took a really long time. As I said in my opening speech, there was a jurisdictional squabble between the provincial and federal governments at the beginning of the pandemic.
In the meantime, our first nations government took steps on our end to prepare our communities for the pandemic, in spite of everything we were going through. We've already lived through similar crises with other diseases, so first nations have some experience.
We went through hell trying to get our hands on PPE. It took a month, a month and a half, maybe two months, before first nations got PPE.