To answer the question, yes, I did receive the letter. I would also indicate that in the letter from the three officials, they did comment in the first paragraph, “We welcome the report's intended purpose of demonstrating the accountabilities and the opportunities that exist...”. So there were positives as well as their concerns.
During the whole outbreak, I did not receive any call from the federal Minister of Health or his office. We dealt mostly or totally with the representatives of the agencies, those being the Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in that, and of course some of their counterparts, the national medical laboratory and the laboratory in Ottawa, on that perspective in that. But no, I did not hear any inquiries from the federal minister to my office.