I'll defer to Dr. Butler-Jones a little bit on this, but certainly during SARS this post didn't exist. It was very difficult at the time to get a coordinated national response. We learned from SARS that it just occurred, as it turned out, in Ontario, but there were lots of cases where there were individuals who were persons that we were afraid were infected with SARS who were travelling to family and friends in other provinces. I remember a distinct conversation I had with Monsieur Legault, who was in the middle of a provincial election as Quebec health minister. He had to stop his campaigning because we were afraid that a particular person who might have been infected with SARS visited family in Montreal. That's the worst phone call a provincial health minister can get from a federal health minister: “By the way, you might have a SARS case in your own province.”
I think we learned a lot from that experience, both on the provincial side and on the federal side. Having this statutory authority will allow us to do the jobs that these individuals can do for us with the right authority to do so.