First of all, we need to maintain an expertise. Of course the best way to prevent pandemics is to help address early onset and provide all the support, but also, if we're going to fight this pandemic, we need to help countries eradicate it as well, not just in Canada but in the rest of the world.
We've been providing a lot of support to Canadian institutions. We worked with PHAC at the beginning, and a lot of that expertise we brought from the fact that we have been deploying Canadian medical personnel and running cholera and Ebola clinics around the world. This is where we gained a lot of expertise.
It's important to maintain our expertise in times when we don't have a lot of major issues in Canada. We maintain that by helping others. We're also in a time where we have organized direct conferences for Canadian health care experts in real time; we are having webinars with Chinese authorities, medical authorities on the ground, with South Korean medical experts and with doctors, and with Italian personnel on the ground. Those have usually been successful for us to get in real time what the experience is there and how they address certain issues.
I think we need the same thing. Of course when we're in the middle of something, we need to concentrate on dealing with it domestically, but hopefully, as we come out of this we will continue to share what we've learned and we will learn how others have dealt with the same thing.
Again, I know we've received some gifts. The Canadian Red Cross has been managing the stockpile to help others and we've been doing that quite generously. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that we've also received help from others in this time of need.