It's hard for me to speak at the Canadian level. That responsibility lies with PHAC, but also with provincial public health institutes and with hospitals.
I know that at the Canadian level there have been simulations around pandemics. They did one around Ebola. They did one around the H1N1 influenza pandemic. They were supposed to be doing another one now, but the real thing happened before a simulation could be done.
At the level of our hospitals, I think that most of us have done one or two, whether doing Ebola or now with COVID, but it's not something that we do on an ongoing basis because it requires resources, time, as you can imagine. Yes, absolutely, we should be keeping that in mind and doing more of that so we're not taken by surprise when something like this happens.
In my hospitals we've done some. I was at the McGill University Health Centre before, and we also had them. It should be somewhere on a checklist, that you should be doing them every year or every other year, just to make sure you know how to think through a new pandemic or an outbreak.