These reports will focus on how well the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada are performing in meeting the provincial and territorial government’s needs for N95 masks, medical gowns, drug swabs, and ventilators, and whether the Canadian Aboriginal Services Agency has provided enough to indigenous people Assistance to the Inuit and Metis communities.

Vice President David Pratt said: “They have done a good job of providing support to our member states and ensuring adequate personal protective equipment.” Sovereign Indigenous Peoples Alliance, representing Saskatchewan 74 aborigines of the province.

More than 70% of adults in First Nations have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. As of Sunday, there were 774 cases and 334 deaths in the reserves.

VIO volunteer, Is a non-profit charity that was established in the spring of 2020 to respond to the needs of remote indigenous communities in northern Canada.

Since then, it has delivered more than 1.7 million surgical masks, 9,450 face masks and 7,662 liters of hand sanitizer to 206 indigenous communities and organizations supporting urban indigenous people in seven provinces.

In a written question raised in the House of Commons last fall, Conservative Indigenous Services critic Gary Vidal asked for details of the number of personal protective equipment delivered by the department.

She said that when VIO Volunteer Chair Claudine Santos compared the list with her records, she realized that her philanthropy surpassed the government in providing masks to the community, and in some cases, federal donations doubled.

“We did not ask to see mathematics”

Santos served as Director of Parliamentary Affairs in the Conservative Party of Senator Dennis Patterson (Nenvut). She said that she believes this is because VIO volunteers have adopted a method of handling the demands of indigenous communities that are different from those used by bureaucracies.

Santos said: “We did not ask to see mathematics.” “They came to us and they said,’This is what we need.’ We said, “If we have the ability to provide it to you, we will provide it to you. . “

Santos said that in some cases, the charity reserves enough masks to provide the community with a period of six months to a year.

Santos said: “It is unfair to impose your own algorithms and standards on these communities.”

“We must truly accept the fact that they are led by strong and capable people who truly understand and deeply understand the needs of the community.”

Santos said that the relationship between the indigenous communities and the federal government needs to change to empower them to make their own decisions.

She said that the VIO Volunteer Organization is working for indigenous-led organizations (e.g. Indigenous Peoples Resilience FundTo take over the requirements for personal protective equipment.

Santos also stated that the government needs to take responsibility to ensure that the community is protected from the predatory behavior of certain companies seeking to take advantage of it.

Santos said: “If there is not enough dialogue and support, this will happen.”

In a statement to CBC News, Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller said that since the pandemic, the primary task of indigenous peoples is the health, safety and well-being of indigenous peoples, Inuit and Métis.

It has allocated more than US$4.2 billion to help indigenous communities prevent and fight COVID-19, and has pledged to add another US$1.2 billion to the spring federal budget.

The government also pledged to provide 354 million Canadian dollars in a five-year budget to increase the number of nurses and other medical professionals for remote Aboriginal people.

The department acknowledged that it has “learned lessons and will help the department’s continuous response work and better prepare for future pandemics.”

“The Canadian Indigenous Services Agency has established a comprehensive partnership with our Aboriginal partners and is committed to continuing and improving our work.”