It is anticipated that the armed forces could well—and it has not been decided yet, but could well—be used for remote and rural communities. Certainly, transporting into the Arctic, for example, is something that the armed forces is very acquainted with doing and expert at. Do we have the capacity right now? No. Can we procure it? Yes.
There's a lot of work that needs to be done on the idea of moving a vaccine that requires that kind of temperature management, from the idea of it to the execution of it, including testing of airplanes—all that safety aspect of this. What we are doing is working through all of the options. There will be no stone left unturned, no aspect of this that the planners do not look at with the Public Health Agency.
Whether it is an armed forces transportation method or just an armed forces contribution to the planning, it will be very thorough, and we will ensure that rural and remote communities have the same access to the vaccine as the more populous areas of Canada.
General Cadieu.