We were facing a very strong resurgence. The science was still emerging with respect to omicron. Although it happens very quickly in pandemic time, it still takes a while for the pandemic science to emerge on the effectiveness of vaccines against certain variants and to understand how a particular variant is presenting.
In terms of the omicron surge, there was evidence to support that we were in a surge—it was happening not only in Canada but globally as well—and that we should be maintaining efforts to encourage individuals to be as protected as possible from the vaccination perspective, as well as through personal protection measures—