Thanks very much. Six minutes is not really too much time to talk about how COVID has irrevocably changed our world.
I know you all are working so hard to try to unpack all of that, and I want to thank you for the work you're doing, first of all.
I want to make two points. The first is that the federal government needs to manage the border and coordinate with the provinces to restrict the potential for new variants of concern to enter Canada. The second point is that the federal government should launch a royal commission into the treatment of people in long-term care homes across Canada.
Those are the two things I want to talk about. I might not get to talk too much about the second claim, so perhaps I could pick that up in questions.
On managing the border, Canada's performance on COVID has been a very mixed bag overall. Smaller provinces, like New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland, have aimed for zero COVID.