I'm not suggesting at this point in time that they look at more tiering. I really don't think I'm qualified to answer that. My point, very simply, is that firefighters are front-line emergency heath care workers and they should be recognized in that capacity. They shouldn't be pulled out and separated, as they were in H1N1. By default, that's where they should be.
Once it goes beyond and rolls out to the provinces or whatever, if there's overwhelming evidence to define them differently, then so be it. Let the provincial health agencies or whatever have that flexibility to make that decision. At that point, we can determine whether there's any justification.
In a nutshell, firefighters are emergency medical responders.