Thank you.
Dr. Hardcastle, picking up on Dr. Schwartz's last comment, I think it's fairly common knowledge now that jurisdictions around the world, as Dr. Wark has pointed out, that were able to contain travel with hard stops had the greatest success in reducing transmission. We saw that in Canada with the early closures in Atlantic Canada.
I'm looking at the Emergencies Act, section 8. The very first power given to the federal government, were it to invoke the Emergencies Act, is “the regulation or prohibition of travel to, from or within any specified area, where necessary for the protection of the health or safety of individuals”.
My question is, is it only the federal government that has the constitutional power to regulate travel interprovincially and between provinces and territories? If they didn't do it, would any province have the ability to do it?