Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, Mitch, for turning the question over. The Government of Canada has been exploring options for mobile apps that will enable Canadians to monitor their exposure to COVID-19 and minimize the spread of the virus. Sometime into the pandemic, Apple and Google made note of the introduction of an API that would allow for Bluetooth technology to help facilitate the peer-to-peer capacity of telephones to signal interactions, particularly interactions that may actually highlight the risk that people are at in terms of a potential infection.
The Government of Canada has been working with Apple and Google to understand the nature of that API, its functionality and how it works within the telephone space, and how it may interact with the potential exposure notification application that could be brought to bear to allow Canadians to understand their relative risk and the potential for them to come into contact with COVID-19.