Thank you for that question.
A lot of great work was done through the Public Health Agency of Canada as well as Health Canada to prepare for the Olympics, and I would like to offer my thank you to the group and acknowledge the successful program that they were able to establish.
The emergency preparedness and the safety and security of Canadians during the whole Olympics was a very high priority for the Government of Canada. The Public Health Agency of Canada contributed to the high level of preparedness for the Olympics through the provision of resources in several areas, such as quarantine services, the activation of the emergency operation centres, and sending members of the health emergency response team to Vancouver as well as to Whistler.
In particular, the Public Health Agency of Canada deployed the health emergency response team—trauma physicians and nurses and other medical professionals—to the mobile medical unit in Whistler to support the medical staffing requirement.
Finally, the Public Health Agency of Canada also deployed two microbiological emergency response teams to mobile labs in B.C. to support the 2010 games. As part of the RCMP-led task force, MERT was part of the overall health and safety protection systems that were set up in Vancouver 2010. The team also consisted of infectious disease lab experts with specialized lab equipment designed for easy transport, and they were equipped to provide on-site and rapid diagnostic testing to help respond to the threats of infectious agents, whether natural or man-made.
There was a lot of great work in this. I thought it was quite successful.
Dr. Butler-Jones may want to add more to that.