Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson.
I want to start where I left off in my discussion with the minister.
We're hearing a lot from the minister and from you, Dr. Butler-Jones, about plans in the works for the fall. I think it's really hard for us to accept that when, as early as last June, you knew and you talked about this possibility of a mutation and a serious outbreak in the fall. So we expected that more planning would have been done this summer and we would by now be at the point where we'd hear specific plans and more concrete proposals for dealing with such things as the higher incidence in first nations communities and dealing with the questions we're all getting about adverse reactions to vaccines.
First of all, as Gary Doer, the Premier of Manitoba, said, we have a truck coming at us. It doesn't look like we're actually ready for this, so what happens if there is a significant outbreak in the fall? We don't have vaccines, we don't have a prioritization list, we don't have a contingency plan in terms of massive numbers in first nations or remote communities, so what are we going to do? How are we going to address these serious issues?