One of the complicated pieces around all of these vaccine mandates is that there has been so much politicization. A lot of Canadians have lost trust. They don't understand what is different today compared with yesterday in terms of being able to get on a plane. What magically changed so that now, today, it is safe, whereas yesterday it was unsafe?
You have a whole amount of fear. There hasn't been a lot of communication with the general public, who perhaps thought that those mandates were in place for some specific reason. We don't have any answers about metrics for why these mandates were kept in place for as long as they were.
We didn't follow any of our G7 partners. While travel and so much is a global phenomenon, Canada stayed on its own, keeping a very different.... We were out of step with our U.S. partners. We were out of step with our European partners. We were out of step with just about everyone in the world. Now, Canadians who believed that Canada was doing this...they're confused as to how, somehow, it's now safe.
What would you tell those Canadians about why there was an overnight change in these mandates and restrictions?