First, I want to thank you, Dr. Hanley, for your leadership on this. I think that debate in the House of Commons really demonstrated that this crisis is touching members across the House and real people, families and loved ones of parliamentarians from coast to coast to coast.
We believe the B.C. exemption is a huge first step in cracking open this big door and in being able to do it in an evidence-based way, with the appropriate indicators for public health and for public safety. We have to make sure that we build, during the pre-exemption period, a process that will get us the data in real time and a dashboard. We have to be able to evaluate in real time how we are making a difference and that it's still in the public interest.
I have received an application from the Toronto Board of Health, and we are working with them. We understand many jurisdictions have passed motions, but we haven't received any other applications yet. We believe they should be forthcoming from Montreal, Edmonton and maybe the police forces in Saskatoon and Regina.