Thank you, Madam Chairperson.
In three or five minutes, let me first ask Mr. Normand. You are an expert in the whole area of emergency preparedness. Obviously, all of you together are not exactly enamoured of the federal government's approach and you are feeling there's a need for a national plan with funding and consultation and with teeth. Let me ask some specifics, though.
Right now we're at August 12 and they're predicting that an outbreak could happen in September. What direction have you now received from the federal government in terms of very specific things--for instance, for an ambulance driver? Are you instructed to wear a mask if you're carrying a patient who has H1N1? Or if you are a police officer and asked to enforce a quarantine, have the police been given specific directions from the federal government through this process for how to handle that?