Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Mr. Garner.
Thank you very much for your very frank and open testimony. That's certainly much appreciated in the situation we find ourselves in.
We were talking earlier with previous witnesses about some of the missteps along the way, and I know you can't give that inside information, but I found it interesting that PHAC was going to do a national pandemic simulation in 2019 but put it off. This would have been in partnership with the provinces and territories and in conjunction with the federal government, which is the focus of our study here.
What kind of a difference would that have made, from your expertise, in terms of identifying the capacity of provinces and territories to handle a pandemic and maybe identifying as well some of the obstacles or shortfalls that we may have had in that provincial-territorial-federal relationship?