Given the nature of a pandemic and the complex public health challenges, there has to be a huge amount of collaboration between provinces, territories and the federal government. No level of government can do this alone.
In terms of the health care system pressures, on the public health side what we're trying to do is promote prevention and health promotion so that we reduce the impact on the health system. It's very important to have emergency rooms, primary health care and other systems being more resilient. Part of the solution is actually shoring up public health. You've seen in the pandemic that if vaccinations and other measures were not put in place, those very systems would be even more pressured than they were before. We need to protect our health care workers.
Those kinds of collaborations are absolutely key. Of course, we need to collaborate on monitoring and sharing of information and data to inform our collective response, while recognizing that there are different contexts, different populations and indeed different virus activities on the ground.