Thank you for the question.
Certainly I can. I can give an example from when the pandemic was first called in. I can tell you that the Department of National Defence worked really hard at making sure that all the employees and military members were safe. We worked really well together. There was a great deal of consultation and we put in all the processes we needed to make sure that safety was the number one priority.
It wasn't the same for those employees who were contractors. I can tell you of contracted employees at a particular base who were being told they still had to continue to come into the workplace. They still had to continue to do different duties that weren't their regular duties because those were no longer required due to the lower manning that was happening as a result of the pandemic. They weren't given any safety gear. These employees, these contractors, were putting their lives at risk, and they were literally putting the employees of National Defence and the military members' lives at risk as well because they were acting almost as a conduit. If one of them were infected with the virus, they would have easily been spreading it at that point.
We had to work very hard with National Defence and with the contractors to try to get that addressed. In most cases, we were successful, but in a couple, we weren't. We're just very lucky that we didn't see any catastrophic results from that.