Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I'd like to thank all the witnesses for their testimony. We are looking for seeking solutions and will have to make recommendations once we have completed our study. So I thank them for being here today.
I will turn to you first, Professor Taillon. Your presentation was very clear and touched on a number of complex issues in a very short period of time, and you summarized them simply and clearly. Thank you for that.
Some people have told us that the crisis would have been managed more efficiently if we had invoked the Emergencies Act or centralized our operations. Others felt that, on the contrary, decentralized management of operations was the only solution to managing what we didn't know. I understand that you fall into the latter camp.
If the government had persisted in using such an act or centralized management, we might have had to manage both an urgent health crisis—we were told from the first wave that we were lagging two weeks behind the spreading virus—and a political crisis.
What do you think?