Thank you.
Absolutely, I think there are going to be many lessons to be learned. From the patient perspective, I think there has been a great deal of understanding that the health care system is in an impossible situation and that we've had to prepare for the worst. At the beginning of the pandemic, when you looked around the world, it really looked like of course Canada needed to avoid the worst that we saw in other countries. Perhaps our preparation has meant that we won't see that in Canada, which I think cancer patients, like all of us, would be very grateful for.
Absolutely, there are lessons to be learned here about the impact. One of the things that's a great challenge for our Canadian health care and that applies to cancer very specifically is the lack of access to data about patient experience, which is held in different pockets across the whole country and makes it quite difficult to understand in real time what people are going through and adjust. I think there are great lessons to be learned.
There's absolutely research that should be done to understand not just how we would deal with another pandemic, but also how we could create a health system that can be more responsive to people's needs on a very timely basis. We would think that would be another good outcome from what's been such a challenging situation, just as Ms. Simard mentioned virtual care as being something that's been a real, positive leap forward that the pandemic has caused. I think we could apply the same...to understanding the impact of strain on the system on different types of diseases and patient groups.