Mr. Chair, it's all well and good for a cleanup after the fact, but if no lessons were actually learned, as we are finding with the recommendations that went unheeded after the SARS epidemic, then history is bound to repeat itself.
In December, Bruce Aylward was appointed the co-lead of the WHO-China joint mission on coronavirus, and he has served as assistant director general at the WHO in the past. He is, by far, the most informed Canadian with respect to the WHO's actions on COVID-19. Mr. Aylward has twice rejected invitations to appear at the health committee, forcing the committee to take the extraordinary step of issuing a summons.
Given that the Government of Canada heavily relies on the information provided by the WHO to make decisions around COVID-19, can the Prime Minister inform this House of what action he is willing to take to put pressure on the WHO to force it to comply with the orders of this country's legislature?