In my opening remarks, I did talk about the gradual evolution of the national emergency strategic stockpile, and it has evolved from wartime to current times, right before the pandemic, with various phases and various types of funding. It does not have a large budget, as compared with my international colleagues or even some of my domestic partners. It has been funded for what it was asked to do. However, it was not asked to prepare beyond surge capacity for provinces and territories.
With hindsight, one could always like more. One would always wish, however this goes forward, as we do the preparedness and identify the risks and what's required to address those risks, that in the future the budget allocation is proportionate, to allow us to meet that.
