Thank you.
The national COVID-19 volunteer recruitment campaign was launched by your government, Minister, in early April. You called on Canadians to step up and help with the pandemic in three key areas, which are case tracking and contact tracing, surge capacity, and data collection. We had 53,000 people sign up to assist by the time the posting closed on April 24, but the volunteer database does not appear to have been used in any province or territory.
Given that Canada continues to struggle to increase our pandemic response capacity, why haven't these volunteers been put to work?