Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses. An awful lot of information was given to us today, and I thank you all for that.
I want to direct my first question to Dr. Kates.
Although it seems as though there's a light at the end of the tunnel now with multiple vaccine candidates under review, and we're hearing very good things about them, we know that Canadians are still struggling to cope with public health measures designed to keep them safe.
In August, after wave one, you were quoted in the Hamilton Spectator as saying:
I think people are generally feeling a lack of motivation, anxiety and stress and are looking to kind of break out, rather than move out smoothly.
Could you tell us what the specific challenges were that Canadians faced mentally as they looked to go back to old routines after coming out of that first wave? What can we learn from that as we look to our future post-COVID-19 second wave in Canada as we start to roll out the vaccines?