Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses for being here today.
Dr. Stanford, I will start with you.
In a January 16 op-ed in the Toronto Star, you wrote the following:
Anyone concerned about the economy should be pleading for fast, powerful lockdowns, not demanding a return to business-as-usual. The correlation between controlling contagion and economic recovery is clear across Canadian provinces: those with fewer COVID cases have achieved the strongest employment results since the pandemic hit.
Could you expand on that? Do you have any specific recommendations to give us, as federal politicians, for how we can implement that concept?