My question is for Mr. Culbert and Dr. Marchildon.
One thing I've found kind of perplexing in terms of the public health response to the pandemic has been the reluctance of health officers to use their powers under provincial health legislation, which gives public health officers the powers to protect the public and, in doing so, to issue various kinds of orders—for example, requiring people to self-isolate.
I think all provinces have that kind of legislation. I know that in Ontario it's the Health Protection and Promotion Act. Sections 22 and 35 are the two sections that give them the powers.
Why have public health officers in Canada been so reluctant to use this legislation, which would seem to me to have been placed for this very purpose?