As I said, public health needs more capacity, more tools and more platforms, including data platforms, to inform our decisions. I don't mean that just for the Public Health Agency; my report points to the whole public health system in Canada.
Mobility data is one promising area where.... I think one can appreciate that a virus such as the one that causes COVID-19 is spread by human-to-human contact and via humans moving from one location to another. This type of data helps with both the epidemiologic assessments and forecasting potential areas of outbreak.
This can be added to the suite of tools, such as wastewater monitoring, that we've been trying to expand during this pandemic. That's why I've highlighted this as one of the data sources that could be very helpful, as well, in informing local jurisdictions of the effectiveness of some of the measures.