Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to go to Ms. Lapointe.
In conclusion, I would like to summarize your message to us today. If we want to counter such a virulent pandemic by applying the precautionary principle in terms of public health and workplace health and safety, that means we cannot continue to make health networks weak and precarious by underfunding them. Adequate funding would be particularly useful for front-line services, as well as for applying the precautionary principle, which is so important in public health.
You also tell us that we could have been better prepared and that the precautionary principle should not vary according to the amount of equipment we have in reserve to protect the public. You also said that we need to work on this, in order to become less reliant on wheeling and dealing in the global market.
In the end, you want us to not come out of this episode with recommendations put aside as we did after the SARS episode, when we weren't thorough enough.