Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to get back to a point I was making a little bit earlier. My colleague brought up an issue of political decision versus epidemiological decision. The example I was thinking of was that certain pandemics and flus affect young children. What we're talking about with any plan is flexibility, and I believe the provinces and territories could decide today that you could categorize firefighters as first responders, with the guidelines we have today.
What we've heard with other and previous testimony is that every place is so different. I believe you brought up examples. You can have an EMS guy and a firefighter as the same guy in one community. Up north, a first responder is a nurse practitioner.
I'm curious why you're not.... It's important that you're here and that we're hearing your testimony here, but because of the flexibility across the country, why are you not approaching the provinces and even the municipalities? I think you made a good point, Scott, that ultimately these are guidelines. Whatever guidelines we make, the province, at the end of the day, is going to interpret them the way it wants.
If you're looking after the best interests of firefighters across the country and the individual circumstances for every professional, don't you think it would be important to have those discussions with not only provincial governments but municipal governments along the road?