Mr. Chairman, maybe I can start with the process of how we're taking people through the steps from the point of view of health assessment.
We are working very closely with Chinese authorities, who have been quite clear that they will want to ensure that any individual who is getting on the flight and leaving Hubei province is not symptomatic. They themselves will be having an assessment of every single person, which is not different for Canada relative to other countries that have repatriated their own citizens. There will also be a pre-boarding assessment that will be done by our colleagues in the Canadian Armed Forces.
During the flight itself, we've worked with our partners to ensure there is a comprehensive questionnaire that will be gone through with every single individual on the flight. It will collect information that will enable us to have a good understanding of the individuals themselves: what kind of health considerations might be important for us to know; whom they may have been in contact with during the course of their stay in Hubei province; whether they themselves have been sick; and whether they have been in contact with somebody who was sick. That's so we have a very good understanding of each individual and the type of information that will be necessary for us as we continue the health assessment once they arrive.
If there is somebody who is sick en route, we've worked on protocols that would ensure that those individuals, to the extent possible, are isolated from other passengers on the flight and are given some equipment, such as a mask, to ensure that we're doing what's necessary from the point of view of other individuals who are on that flight. If they are sick enough upon arrival, we do have the right kinds of mechanisms in place whereby we would be transferring that individual to the local public health authority to make sure they get the treatment they would need in response to whatever they may be dealing with from a health perspective.
The same would hold true in terms of people who have subsequently gone through the processing at Trenton. If we were to have an individual who becomes symptomatic, we've already worked out the protocols with our local public health officials in Ontario whereby we would have a seamless transition into the local public health system to make sure that individuals get the kind of support they need.