Mr. Chair, I think everybody—certainly I felt this way—had a profound sense of the need to move quickly. The global situation evolved very quickly over the months of February and March. I would say that there was a real premium placed on moving rapidly to put support programs in place. I have described some of the work that was done on personal protective equipment and on biomanufacturing. We also felt the profound need to try to move as quickly as possible there.
Obviously, at the end of the day Canadians will judge the response for themselves, but I think we did our best. I certainly feel that my organization and my employees did their very best to move as quickly as possible while being responsible. I think the honourable members of this committee have talked about the necessity of not throwing the rules out and so on, but trying to move very rapidly and diligently.
If there were risks to be taken because we had incomplete information, we tried to make calculated, smart risks and to not let too much bureaucracy and red tape slow down what we all felt was the need to move quickly to make sure that the country was safe from a pretty desperate situation.