Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, everyone, for being here. I have questions for all of you, but I'm not sure if I'll get through them, so I'll try as quickly as I can.
Dr. Barry, I might as well start where you left off. Certainly I hear your point about the need for equipment pre-COVID and about wait-lists, but you also mentioned in your testimony that Atlantic Canada, for example, isn't hit as hard. Is that because they've had a zero-COVID mentality or a near zero-COVID mentality and that the provinces have put in place restrictions to really limit COVID?
Where I come from in Ontario, we're seeing places like SickKids hospital actually preparing beds to be ICUs and the direct correlation with doctors' warnings back in February that if reopening happened too quickly too soon, we were going to see hospital rooms and ICUs fill up. You mentioned in your testimony Atlantic Canada, the example, and the direct correlation that not getting COVID contained is going to have long-term health impacts outside of just COVID. We're going to see, as you mentioned, issues around screening, prevention and treatments in other areas, so the focus should be around containing COVID to ensure that everybody is able to access health care in the ways that we are seeing in other jurisdictions.