Thank you.
Commissioner, can we shift gears a minute to the vaccine files? Again, public health depends on trust. We have to be honest that a lot of trust was lost during COVID. Many Canadians felt that decisions were made behind closed doors, guidance changed without clear explanations and important information wasn't always shared in real time. That loss of trust didn't disappear with the pandemic ending. I hear from constituents, especially young mothers, my daughters included, who still feel that information was kept from them. Whether those perceptions are fair or not, they do exist.
At the same time, Canadians learned that vaccine safety and adverse reaction records are being sealed for 15 years. Now, from a trust perspective, that raises alarm bells. When that information is held, people start asking about it: Why can't we see this? What aren't we being told?
Would you agree that this kind of long-term secrecy has a risk of deepening mistrust, especially among parents making decisions for their children?