Task Force Update Today

Public Health with a live update on Kahnàwake 911 from Facebook live that broadcast on your community radio station, K1037, providing the latest news for town from the Task Force: Grand Chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer, Commissioner of Public Safety Lloyd Phillips and Ryan Montour addressing the community. The Grand Chief admitting to having had Covid and the struggles living with it:

“In a time when we are faced with great crisis is the time when we find a way to come together and to work together and to see each other as extended families and the inter-connectedness that we all have to each other through our families and it’s important that in this time right now, I know there a lot of people criticizing, ‘why did you extend the state of emergency,’ how come we’re not back to moving toward a way of just living with the Covid-reality, it being an endemic.”

Ryan Montour who stated that with freedom comes responsibility, on new directives for essential service workers:

“Right now there are new directives in place where all essential workers will even have to sacrifice more freedoms. They will have to be isolated for 10 days, for the general population its 5 days but the essential services are paramount to our lines of defense against this virus and the common enemy here is this virus. It is not each other, we all have the same enemy in mind, I’ve stated this before, there’s nothing that can destroy us. We are a strong, resilient people, we will never stop to be, we have the community’s best interests at heart.”

Lloyd Phillips is optimistic. He says that factors at play could see a gradual easing of restrictions on businesses in the 1^st week of February, no guarantees:

“We didn’t set an exact date as we speak today, but certainly we are looking at the 1st week of February for those businesses who are impacted by current directives from the Task Force: restaurants, bars, social clubs, gaming for example, to look at starting to reopen in the 1st week of February.”