All these memoranda have been supported in principle by all the jurisdictions in terms of the roles and responsibilities on information sharing and on mutual aid, as well as working through some of the financial annexes on the information sharing. We're anticipating ministers dealing with that in the fall. However, it has not impeded the work in any way. The thinking that goes behind these memoranda is the essential matter we're dealing with in terms of cooperation, collaboration, and sharing of information. All those things are in place and are working.
In terms of the question with regard to not everybody knowing, I'm sure that's true. That's always true. Seven years ago, long before I started this job, I was working with the local health authorities, with municipalities, with representatives from multiple municipalities, from police, from fire, as well as undertakers, working on the pandemic plan for that region. That's a region that probably has a lot of things in place now, seven years later, that some others may not have.
We know, at the outset of H1, not every jurisdiction was at the same level of planning or had the same level of connection between medical officers, municipal officials, hospital officials, etc. We've been encouraging, because we don't do it. Public health is a local activity. The hospital is local, everything is local, but it can connect through provinces, territories, and the national and international governments.
So we've been working to encourage that, to develop the resources, to build collaborative mechanisms to foster that, but at the end of the day it really is a shared responsibility that each level, each jurisdiction, needs to address. So if there are questions to be answered, part of it is asking the question; and if it's the local police or fire, it's talking to the local medical officer, because that's actually where the action takes place. The issue of the broad guidelines is important, but those are broad guidelines at a national level that then need to be adapted and used locally.
I think many of those guidelines were actually in place before H1, because we've been working on these issues, as I think the committee knows, for a long time. But then when we saw H1, they needed to be adapted, because it's not exactly what we expected. We had guidelines around for health care facilities, etc. Once we saw H1, in the first weeks, we adapted those guidelines for H1, and we've recently revised them based on, now, several months of experience.
That revision will continue to go on. They get posted; they get shared. Sometimes there are gaps in the information because not everybody knows at the same time, but again, it's key, and I want to stress that, from all areas, if people don't know, they need to ask. We'll communicate. Each level will communicate, but it's important also that they ask, and there is the planning that needs to take place locally.