Well, we certainly realize that you're not progressive.
Mr. Barrett, to give him credit, wasn't asking for a date. He was asking us for benchmarks on which we're going to base our decisions. Now, I'm pretty sure we aren't making our decisions arbitrarily on when we're going to drop the mandates. I think it's obviously based on complicated things, on modelling. Even though I, too, have a Master's of Public Health, I don't even understand things like regression analyses and how they work.
I think the Canadian public wants, and I think we all want, the government to be basing its decision on something other than dumbing it down, because in Parliament, that's what we do: We dumb it down. But I don't think we want our policy decisions with respect to health and the pandemic to be dumbed down.
I'd like to give you an opportunity in a couple of minutes to explain it. I want you to explain it in a technical fashion, because I think that's what we base our decisions on. Some of us in this room are doctors. Feel free to maybe go over our heads in describing this. What is modelling, and when you're doing the modelling, what is it based on? Presumably it's case rates. Presumably it's based on hospital admissions and ICU admissions.
Just give us a bit of the hard science on this, please.