Then it took us all of February and into March to move on it.
Through you, Mr. Chair, let me ask Ms. Hogan this. In doing your analysis, when you came before us both at the original committee meeting and today you stated that the agency relied on a risk assessment tool that was not tested and that the agency continued to assess the risk as “low”, despite the growing numbers of COVID cases in Canada and worldwide. You stated that in addition, the global public health intelligence network did not issue an alert about the virus that would become known as causing COVID-19.
Can you help me understand the timeline from January 30, when the WHO let us know that this is a significant problem, and how that alert would have differed or have been related to our systems that weren't tested and to the understanding that there was no global public health intelligence network alert? How does that global public health intelligence network alert differ from the WHO's alert in its seriousness?