That's an interesting comment and, I would suggest, Reverend Garner, that yes, public health has changed its focus in recent years away from infectious disease and towards non-communicable diseases. That was perhaps part of the problem.
I was also very interested in your allegations about the bureaucratization of PHAC, in terms of the doctors and scientists being replaced by bureaucrats. I want to perhaps engage you in a bit of an academic conversation. Isn't this something that has happened broadly across other departments, and not only here in Canada but globally?
I was speaking to a friend, a scientist who worked high up in the British government, and he was talking about the same trend of replacing content experts with bureaucrats. I know that in the hospital, it's basically the same thing. A lot of administrators are people who don't actually practice medicine. I think this is part of a broader movement. Why is that? Why don't we have people who are more content experts in positions of authority?