Thank you very much to the member.
He's absolutely right. We are taking a multi-layered approach to keeping Canadians safe. Obviously, everything we do has to be in partnership with provinces and territories, as they deliver health care in their own jurisdictions and have the right and the responsibility to do that.
As part of our work to support tracking variants, we've invested $53 million to create a variants of concern strategy, which will increase monitoring and surveillance of new COVID-19 variants in Canada. I think you heard Dr. Tam say that this work has accelerated extremely quickly, and we're testing positive cases across the country to get a better handle on where these variants of concern might be, obviously in partnering with experts in research and public health. This is a very important piece of work, especially right now as we stand at such a critical point in our battle against COVID-19, including vaccinating Canadians.