Thank you very much.
To the member of Parliament, through the chair, thanks for the opportunity to highlight the team Canada approach that we decided on earlier. I think I started to speak about that in response to another member's question. We really felt at the beginning of this pandemic that although we have jurisdictional roles and responsibilities, Canadians needed us to, as a federal government, step up to help. Health human resources has been one of those aspects where provinces and territories have called on us to do so.
Early on in the pandemic, we created a rapid response program that could move vital resources like nurses, doctors and other critical public health workers, epidemiologists, to provinces and territories when they needed the extra help. For example, earlier this year, we helped coordinate the deployment of doctors and nurses from Newfoundland and Labrador, who volunteered in Ontario, to help on the third wave.
I'll turn to Dr. Tam to speak a few more words about other resources we provided to provinces and territories.