Thank you very much.
I think for most people, when they think about their experience of the pandemic, there's the personal side in cases where they may have a friend or family member or themselves who got very ill and all the anxiety and worry that come with that. We talked a fair bit about vaccination already, which is of course the best way to try to prevent similar instances in the future.
The other thing I think is part and parcel of people's experience of the pandemic, even if they didn't get sick with COVID themselves, was just the extreme strain that it put on hospitals. They may have experienced that in the case of a loved one. They may have experienced it in their own case, requiring health services for something that was unrelated to COVID but where the treatment and the availability of health resources were severely impacted as a result of the level of infection and just how difficult it was for the health system.
In this moment of, relatively speaking, apparent calm, I'm wondering what we can be doing in order to try to strengthen health systems and shore up our hospitals in the event that we do see another wave or something else that comes along that requires a significant amount of health resources.
I know that provinces, of course, are responsible for that direct delivery, but in health human resources, for instance, we're going to need to train more people. Having 10 different provincial strategies that are competing and might incorporate poaching, for instance, as part of their strategy will not be helpful. Some kind of national collaboration and co-operation might help there.
I'm wondering if you could point to other areas where co-operation among provinces and with the federal government might help us develop a faster response or to be ready more quickly for events that may be coming down the line.