Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday that the federal government would continue to help provinces and territories as they combat COVID-19, including dispatching the Red Cross to help in long-term care facilities in Manitoba, but stressed to premiers that federal “resources are not infinite.” He said there is a threshold, should the cases spike too much, they may have to make decisions about where to deploy the resources.
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