Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question is for you, Dr. Tremblay.
Welcome, and thank you again for joining us.
People are concerned about the arrival of the variants. Modelling by the Public Health Agency of Canada showed that, if the public health measures were relaxed too quickly, we could have up to 20,000 new cases per day. The Institut national de santé publique du Québec, INSPQ, was talking about 2,000 new cases per day in Quebec alone.
Do you believe that those measures must be relaxed, or tightened even more? Some claim that we need to tighten them even more until we have a critical mass of people who have been vaccinated.