Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for your work, Madam Chair, in trying to get the ministers here as soon as possible, and accepting that we'll see them in the new year.
I do want to take a brief moment before I talk to the witnesses to put forward a motion on the table. It states:
That in relation to the study on the domestic manufacturing capacity for a COVID-19 vaccine, the COVID19 Vaccine Task Force members be invited to appear for one and a half hours, separately from other witnesses, at their earliest opportunity in January.
If there's no agreement on this point, you can consider this as a verbal notice of motion so we can consider it at the next meeting.
With that, I'll carry on to the witnesses.
I'd like to start with Mr. Brown. Congratulations on the work that you've done for the Pikangikum First Nation. It's really remarkable because this really isn't your core area of work, providing wireless and broadband installations.
I do want to come back to a point that you made, your struggle with dealing with the major companies in trying to get something going for that group. Can you elaborate a bit on what the barriers were? What is it that you saw that it could have been different and would potentially have gotten service into those communities more quickly, rather than coming up with the alternative with satellite—albeit it looks like it might be a very reasonable solution?