It didn't come up in that first call, Mr. Jeneroux, but that was because what the Public Health Agency said was the same thing that the minister said, which was helpful. When we asked what we could do, the answer back was, “Please tell us what nurses are telling you so that we have a very good sense of what is going on at points of care across the country.”
No, it was not in that very first conversation, but I have to say it was very prominent in many conversations thereafter, although now I see it seems to be shifting. We haven't been hearing quite as much about it in the last three or four weeks as we were in the first four weeks. There are still pockets of it. In other places though, I can tell you that I happen to be board chair of a hospital in Ontario and was told by the nurses that they had every single thing they needed and that it was not a problem.
It's the unevenness of it that seems to be playing out. Of course if Nurse Betty in Saskatchewan hears that Nurse Dave in New Brunswick has something different, it's confusing, or as we heard in a case in another province, a paramedic and a nurse showed up to do some kind of care, whatever they were doing, and the paramedic had the N95 mask and the nurse was told she didn't need it. It's that unevenness in practice settings that causes anxiety for people.