Thread by @MarcMillerVM

On Friday, in light of the dangerous increase in Covid19, Canada announced additional support for First Nations and Métis in Saskatchewan. Working directly in partnership with First Nations and Métis leadership we are allocating over $68 million in funding, including #cdnpoli

•$20 million to Indigenous communities and organizations for a wide variety of measures, including support to Elders and vulnerable community members, food security, mental health assistance, outreach efforts to keep people safe, and emergency response services and preparedness

measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
•$32 million to support public health measures such as supplying non-medical PPE to comply with provincial masking requirements. Of this amount, $10 million will be provided to support immediate measures where there is a community

outbreak declared by the Medical Health Officer.
•$920,000 for the seven personal care home and Elders lodges to provide additional support staff and greater infection control prevention measures.
•$15.3 million in immediate and direct support for communities with outbreaks

or in critical areas. Of this amount, $6.5 million will be allocated to address the increasing needs in Northern Saskatchewan and supporting Métis-First Nations collaboration, $1.3 million to Meadow Lake Tribal Council to support their First Nations in augmenting

existing isolation infrastructure capacity in high impacted areas, $2.25 million to support Indigenous Peoples with their isolation needs in the Battlefords area of central Saskatchewan

and $250,000 to Hatchet Lake to address occupational and safety issues at the airport runway and support food security and people's safety during this pandemic response. We will continue to support First Nations and Métis in Saskatchewan during this difficult time.