In the provinces, the chief medical officers of health, for the most part—I'll speak broadly, but there's interprovincial variation—have the sweeping power to do almost anything necessary to contain a communicable disease. In the law, they're very powerful.
Where it gets complicated is the politics. For example, even though many chief medical advisors of health have broad legal authorities and the public health orders are in their names, at the same time, politically, they have been put in more of an advisory role. I think the provinces need to go one way or the other. Either they're independent people with legal authority who can speak out or act independently, or they are made subordinate to the government and their orders are subject to ministerial approval.
We can't have it both ways. We can't have these people be in charge when it's convenient for the provinces to have them be in charge or subordinate when it's convenient for the provinces. That's a—