It's an interesting question.
Canada was one of the leaders in pandemic planning. It wasn't as though everyone else was out in front of us in 1988. We, and maybe the folks in the U.K., were working on it. We were the leaders. It's just that people hadn't really thought about how to approach it.
In terms of the overall lessons learned, one of the key things is that following the Senate committee review, both Health Canada and we have developed a management response and action plan. On the basis of that, we've identified a number of areas where we need to work.
To highlight some of them, it's to strengthen federal-provincial-territorial capacity. We are working in those areas, both in the way we engage the stakeholders and the way we're working with jurisdictions in the development of the new pandemic plan.
Another one is in the area of information exchange. We are working with other jurisdictions, the provinces and territories, to develop agreements on how information can be shared, particularly at the time of an emergency, but in general as well, because that's when it's probably needed the most. We are continuing to communicate and test our federal emergency management roles and responsibilities.
Another one of the issues that came out of that review was our ability to communicate complicated information to the public in an understandable way. That's another area of focus that we've been working on.