Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've been very patient in wanting to have my turn, and I have the last turn.
First of all, I want to say thank you to the witnesses, in particular to Dr. Anand from Guelph. Congratulations to Dr. Anand on your recently announced nomination for the Governor General's award for your book of poetry, with two other Guelph authors.
There is a story, and that's where I'm going with this. I have an English degree and a math minor. There is a role for this story. You were just finishing a sentence bridging what we're learning from the story of COVID and how that might apply to climate change.
Before I go to the comment you were going to make, I'm thinking of this advisory board we're talking about in this bill as being something like the National Advisory Committee on Immunization or the Public Health Agency of Canada, something that's created outside of government to solve problems on behalf of Canadians but connected to government through some governance.
Could you comment on the importance of the stories we're learning from things like COVID or the previous pandemic we went through?