Health committee  Great. Thanks so much for the question. I would succinctly say that our global governance systems are not up to 21st-century threats, as we're seeing with COVID-19. There's a full range of different threats for which they are not up to standard. When we look to the World Health Organization, we see that it is the leading [Technical difficulty—Editor] authority on public health, but for at least a couple of decades, it has been chronically denied the resources that it needs to actually carry out its job effectively.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the opportunity to appear before this committee as a private individual. My name is Steven Hoffman, and I'm a professor of global health, law and political science at York University, where I direct the global strategy lab. Today I'll speak about a collateral impact of the pandemic that I think this committee has likely heard less about, namely the significant damage this pandemic has caused for our global governance systems.