This was part of our monetary and financial measures working group that we put together. The comment there was less about the epidemiological perspective, as Ian mentioned earlier, and demographics and how vulnerable people should be self-isolating, and more about thinking about it from the perspective of what we can afford and cannot afford.
It comes back to a lot of the questions we've had around debt here, but also, I think part of why governments have talked about a staged approach is so that you can move between stages. If you get to stage three and you start to see that cases are picking up and there is some increased vulnerability to your populations, then you can move back, potentially, to stage two. Hopefully, we'd be in a situation where we have a testing and tracing program in place so that we don't have to shut down everything.
Part of why we had to shut everything down were the unknowns about the disease, but also, we had very little ability for the type of testing and tracing that would be needed—we still don't have sufficient ability, at least in Ontario and Quebec—and then isolating in order to not have to shut the economy down.
It was a little bit of everything in there: a bit on the debt side of things, a bit about the testing and tracing and a bit about the staged approach.