National Defence committee  In the Ontario context, when we looked at transitioning from any long-term care home, there was a set of criteria that we built in concert with the Province of Ontario. It was, in fact, based on four separate criteria. The first one was sort of the master criterion, and that was

National Defence committee  Specific to Ontario, they varied by the facility. It wasn't just the Canadian Armed Forces that was able to provide stability in those homes. It was a partnership with both the Province of Ontario and the resources they were flowing in, not only to the seven different homes we we

National Defence committee  As the question demonstrates, certainly we started to see observations as related to both standards of practice and duty of care upon our initial arrival in the long-term care homes. As our teams had better sensitivities to the tasks they were performing and started to see differ

National Defence committee  Madam Chair, I'm not sure if the video is frozen from Ottawa. Perhaps I would be able to answer the question in that in Ontario, during the 67 days that we provided support to the Province of Ontario through a request for assistance, we operated inside of seven long-term care fac

National Defence committee  In terms of what is occurring in Ontario, and my colleague from the province of Quebec can respond shortly afterwards, we're in the high readiness mode. As a second wave of deployments must occur in the spring, we have conducted all of the live-fire requirements that are typical

National Defence committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. In terms of training at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, as Major General Fortin pointed out, there's a certain element in terms of the fact that this is a high readiness year for the troops stationed in Petawawa. Currently they have people deployed in Latv