Yes, thank you.
I was in Winnipeg on Friday, I went to Mexico Sunday morning and I came back Monday evening. We had a brief but useful meeting with the Americans.
The Under Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security—in the United States, this is the department that coordinates these matters, along with officials from other departments, such as the U.S. Health Department—his Mexican counterparts and we currently have a North American pandemic plan that dates back to 2007. At that time we were preparing for avian flu rather than H1N1.
The purpose of the meeting was to reconfirm or even modify certain coordination mechanisms between the three North American partners—mechanisms pertaining to such things as animal health, access to laboratories, coordination and communication.
We concluded as a result of this meeting that we needed to re-establish and perhaps change somewhat the composition of certain coordination groups, to have meetings more frequently to exchange information and work better together, because the pandemic knows no borders.