Ms. Heather Jeffrey at the Canada-China Relations Committee

On February 4th, 2020. See this statement in context.

February 4th, 2020 / 10:40 a.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Consular, Security and Emergency Management, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Heather Jeffrey

I will say that we responded very quickly to the outbreak. We've been tracking it since it began. We have been tracking as well the needs of Canadians as they developed. As I mentioned earlier, we don't have a consular presence on the ground—

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