Thank you very much, and that's where multilateralism is important.
For example, when the first cases of coronavirus started in China, obviously we were in touch with the Chinese authorities to repatriate people. More recently, with respect to South Korea, I called my counterpart to try to understand lessons learned and what may have happened so that we can learn better and implement best practices and lessons learned.
We are talking constantly with countries around the world. We are monitoring the situation, and again I want to give my deepest appreciation to the team. You have seen, for example in the case of Italy, how things evolved so quickly. How can we update Canadians? My main concern as minister is to make sure we provide timely information to Canadians so that they can make their own decisions with respect to travel.
There's a G7 health minister call, and I'm also trying, as the foreign affairs minister of Canada, to lead and create a group where we can update each other on a weekly basis. I did a call with my Italian counterpart today, and there are some lessons learned there.
We will continue to engage. I was supposed to travel more extensively next week, and we are curbing a bit of that. Clearly we'll need to think about how we do diplomacy now by video conference to keep updated about what's going on while reducing risk.