The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

And at remote outposts (such as coast guard, fisheries and oceans, northern affairs, northern development, parks, RCMP etc) how would they even set up a testing collection capability?

Really, not very well thought through.

To be fair, at a sufficiently remote outpost there isn’t much risk of getting infected.

An RCMP outpost, for example, at a remote northern settlement might only have one or two officers -- but they would be interacting with everyone else in the community.