I think PHAC has been slow to the game, and public masking is a great example. Early on I wrote a letter to Dr. Tam saying that concerns about self-contamination are warranted, but if that's the case, you should have an urgent, wide public health campaign—as they do in Singapore, as they do in Hong Kong, as they do in Taiwan—on how to wear a mask. That still hasn't happened. As I walk in Toronto, I see well-meaning Canadians wearing homemade masks, but they're wearing them with their nose exposed. I see Canadians with beards wearing masks, when we all know that beards prevent the safe wearing of masks.
There is a real failure there to really act urgently to protect Canadians and also to make sure they get the best information.