We wrote to Dr. Tam on January 24 reminding the Public Health Agency of their legal requirement under occupational health and safety. We asked them to be involved in the guidance document, as in the past with Ebola and H1N1.
On February 25, we met with the Minister of Health, because we hadn't had any response from PHAC. On March 5, a week after that, we had a meeting with PHAC, and then a face-to-face meeting with PHAC and all health care unions and other stakeholders on March 13. I'd like to remind others that on March 13 we only had 157 cases in Canada. On March 13, we also came out with our health care national unions' joint statement.
Following this, we're looking at April 7, today, and the second edition of the guidance that came out from the Public Health Agency of Canada, which we denounced earlier this week. It does not represent the precautionary principle. It does not represent the professional and clinical judgment of health care workers at the place of care, so we're—