Well, the first and most important is that health care is provincial jurisdiction. There's no such thing in the Constitution. It depends on the health care sector. Hospitals are provincial jurisdiction; public health is shared jurisdiction. The federal government actually has, based upon various provisions of the Constitution, more jurisdiction than the provinces when it comes to prescription drugs.
It is true that the provinces have tended to occupy most of these fields, but that does not mean that health is a provincial jurisdiction. This is an area that the provinces and the federal government need to work very closely on. There are some areas in which the federal government can act unilaterally in a national emergency, if absolutely necessary to preserve peace, order and good government in Canada, for example. There are also important roles to be played by Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada in a crisis like this.
In my view, there are other problems.
The second area that I would briefly mention is that the federal government can't manage anything, or that the provinces are much more capable of managing everything on the ground. I would say that the federal government has built up expertise in managing large tax expenditure programs that involve transfers to individuals, and the provinces have clearly demonstrated administrative capacity in terms of delivering certain services. When you're dealing with a pandemic like this, it involves a mixture of both. We have seen the federal government tending to do the things it's better at, and the provinces do the things they're better at. At the same time, there were more proactive actions that could have been taken by the Government of Canada that would have allowed Canada to be in a much better position than it is today, and there are still things that can be done as vaccination proceeds.