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Good Afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen, It's Colonel Eric Charron, the 17 Wing Commander, Base Commander of CFB Winnipeg [Col Charron] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, it's Colonel Eric Charron, the 17 Wing Commander, Base Commander of CFB Winnipeg. It's incredible to think of everything that's transpired since last week when myself and my command team partner Chief Warrant Officer Faucher joined you with a static video that we posted online. So this week, we’re evolving to the next stage, making it a bit more interactive. Our sequence of events, so each of the three of us are at the front, we'll provide some opening remarks. Joining me, the Acting Wing Chief, Chief Warrant Officer Savard, and also our Wing Surgeon. Certainly a lady whose own leadership and her team have been the key in this health crisis – Surgeon Major Patti Louttit. So we'll each have opening remarks. Then we'll go through a series of questions that were provided to us in advance. And finally, as more questions roll in through the discussion, we'll be happy to take those facilitated by our Public Affairs Officer Lieutenant Rebecca Major, who is emceeing in the background. So, first of all, ladies and gentlemen, this is not the spring break that any of us had planned. I think that's probably the understatement of the century, if not the millennial. If anything, the last 24 hours has reminded us that, as Manitobans right now as Winnipeggers, winter can hit back at any point at this time. Some may say it's not what we needed, but, try to see the beauty in it, try to see the pristine whiteness in some of it. I know I was able to coax my teens to join myself and my wife outside yesterday, do a first round of shoveling and low and behold, we've got a second round of shoveling waiting for us today. Not awesome, but, listen, we had some good fun, and some good family moments there. And I'm wishing you're able to do a lot of the same things. With your younger ones, perhaps a bit of time to get out of the house, fight that cabin fever, stay close, play in the backyard, but a little bit of fresh air and get those energy, those legs and those arms moving. Some of the big items that have taken place recently. So, orders are coming down our chain from the various levels. The ones that are very pertinent to us, of course, is from the Chief of the Defence Staff and then the Joint Operations Command in Ottawa, the RCAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force Commander, and then our own divisions here. So, 17 Wing under the Second Canadian Air Division, receiving updated orders on a regular basis, and then of course, at the wing level myself with my team generating more orders to give specifics as to what awaits, what tasks are coming our way. So without reading orders to you, cause that's not why you joined us today, what is important to know is that the CDS is expecting to make a very formal announcement but has certainly shared it in advance and allowed us to share with you, ladies and gentlemen, that the current working conditions that is, working from home, if you're not a critical person in a critical service, that needs to be at the wing, at the base to do that, to perform that service in person, then we are staying home. This includes myself, I can not consider myself critical. Essential perhaps, but certainly able to do a lot of my command control right now from home, as a lot of my team members are doing. So critical services only, we are not coming back to normal operations Monday. This applies to regular force, to reserve force, and of course our public servant colleagues and partners, you are to continue staying home until further notice. Some have asked, how long is this going to last? How long? Some are even asking, when can I come back to work? We can go further into those questions later, but for now, what you need to know is that certainly we're not expecting any return to work before Easter, and there's expectation, of course, with all that spread transpiring in the world and in our own country, that things could last longer than that. From a very specific 2 Canadian Air Division and 17 Wing perspective, we ceased our training last week with a few last little bits that were finished off, so it completely stopped on Saturday. There's no more training going on, and that is the case across all of the Canadian Armed Forces. The only training that still carries on is training that can be delivered by distance learning, either with instructors joining from home and students coming in and doing collaborative tools like whiteboard sharing stations. For that we encourage certainly those that are part of the Air Force Officer Development program that are always waiting, been waiting to get through a lot of their functional training to start this program, perhaps now is the time to look at that distance learning portal and start getting that professional development done. APS will stop. That's the Active Posting Season. We can certainly speak a bit more about that later. In short, the last orders are still valid ones. There are no house hunting trips before the 30th of April, so none whatsoever that are taking place. Members that received posting messages before the stop, those have been continuing with some of their actions. I know Chief Savard has got a detailed question coming later, so I'll stop there and we certainly are happy to entertain more questions about the active posting season. Whatever information we have, we're keen to share with you. I do want to remind you, so those of you that are trying to recognize, where are they this time? Well, we're in Building 90, in the fitness room in the basement. So, some of you are probably missing the gym. I know I am, and we've set up a home gym at home and we're following some great programs online, more on that later. Close to us here, of course to Building 90, one building that is still in operations is the MFRC’s daycare. So the daycare due to its location, due to the service it offers service members and their spouses, they are still open, and the province has agreed to a higher limit. So instead of the 16- person occupancy by children, the ceiling has been set to 50 that is five zero. At this point because this week was spring break, there's a very low number and there's only 16 kids that are there this week. Next week it goes back up a little bit to 24. So ladies and gentlemen, looking for perhaps some options where one of you has to go back to work, one of you is an essential service perhaps working on the front in healthcare, that option is there for you. Speak to the daycare as well, they may have some temporary arrangements where they might be able to help on some occasional daycare that normally is offered during routine times. So let me end my opening comments by just giving a bit of a positive message and then I'll give the floor to the Wing Chief. Ladies and gentlemen, we're facing unusual, extraordinary times. But we are not just looking to the front of our nose looking for what's just in front of our hands in front of our face here. We are looking to when this condition is resumed to normal and one aspect that I want all families to look forward to is that right now we are still planning on running the summer camps right here through the MFRC, through the Personnel Support Program, and with that, of course, want to be able to reopen the pool come the summer months. This may have to change as we get to July if the conditions have not improved, but right now, certainly there are plans there to make sure that we can resume to normal and if you need that break, if your kids are going to be in dire need of a little bit of socialization, perhaps with some restrictions, perhaps with some conditions, perhaps with lower numbers. Those are conditions we'll have to look at, but we want at least to give you a sense that that might be possible. Adjudant-chef Savard, please. [CWO Savard] Thank you, Sir. Chief Warrant Officer Savard, many points that you've already touched on, especially with the members being at home and understanding now that they have to stay at home a little bit longer, for the welfare of the CAF and our readiness posture. So, think about your family. Think about the welfare of your family and how they're doing right now. Ask them questions and not just try to entertain them, but just see how they're feeling on a personal level. Same with your colleagues. I mean, if you have a colleague that is a single colleague and what not, ask them questions and then get FaceTime with them and just to see how their environment is. A multimedia is out there. Social media is out there. So there's many people FaceTiming more and more out there, people have the data plans to do it and they should continue to do it.
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