Thank you.
Dr. Barrett, you recently co-signed an open letter in Maclean's, along with a group of leading Canadian physicians and researchers, calling for strict nationwide restrictions to control COVID-19. The letter said, among other things, the following:
It did not have to be this way. A maximum infection suppression strategy implemented early in the epidemic to reduce COVID cases to as low a level as possible, and then stamp out outbreaks as they arise, would have saved tens of thousands of Canadian lives. This approach, with some modifications, remains the best strategy right now.
Dr. Barrett, you mentioned the word “nationwide”. Should the federal government use its powers under various pieces of federal legislation to bring in nationwide restrictions?