The chief of Sayisi Dene First Nation, also known as Tadoule Lake, is thanking Calm Air and Indigenous Services Canada for helping to deliver fuel into the community this week.

Calm Air transported 20 barrels of fuel into the community: ten barrels of gasoline and ten barrels of diesel fuel.

Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Garrison Settee also thanked MKO staff for working to provide support in Tadoule Lake as the community grapples with a loss of a community member that’s being attributed to addictions.

The fuel delivery comes following a meeting between Settee, Sayisi Dene Chief Evan Yassie, and Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, where the leaders were able to tell the minister the challenges the community has been facing.

Yassie and Settee thanked Calm Air and Indigenous Services Canada for delivering the fuel, as the winter road is still closed and the community was low on supply.