That's an excellent question, and let me try to respond to it in two parts.
The first part is that I think many governments federally and provincially have followed up on the SARS recommendations. Where I think we may have fallen down as a society has been in our failure to put into statute the obligations of the parties who are involved in the process. For instance, provincially under labour standard codes and federally under the federal labour code, those that deal with our indigenous health, the statutory obligations are quite vague in terms of a pandemic. In some jurisdictions they are literally non-existent. However, we need to amplify those pandemic obligations that the state must provide for, whether for the safety of our workers, for rapid communication, or for a host of other things. I think if we put those into statute, people will then be obligated. I think there should be some sunshine laws, in part so that every three years you would have to review your pandemic plan.
Under the occupational health and safety provisions that many of the provinces have, there is reference to a pandemic, but it is very short and the definition is very inexact as to the obligations on the part of the state to do that. I would look at that to see what they have in order to make it a statutory obligation as opposed to a recommendation that may come from a particular commission.