Winnipeg Free Press By: Dylan Robertson Manitoba NDP MP Niki Ashton says the federal government should distribute the COVID-19 vaccines directly to Indigenous communities. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files) OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is rejecting an NDP demand to overstep the provinces and dispatch COVID-19 vaccines directly to Indigenous communities. OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is rejecting an NDP demand to overstep the provinces and dispatch COVID-19 vaccines directly to Indigenous communities. "We need to see a plan now," NDP MP Niki Ashton told reporters Monday. "We need to ensure that there is no patchwork approach to delivering the vaccine to Indigenous communities."