Mr. Chair, I thank the member for the question.
Of course, to add to my previous answers, we've been looking at lessons learned throughout the pandemic and evolving our response as we go along. We had OAG audits. We've been responding to those as well. We've also had external experts look at our risk assessments and the global public health intelligence network, and how we can better utilize that.
Yes, we took all those lessons and recommendations into account when we established a new centre for integrated risk assessment to bolster our risk assessment capacity. It was established in December 2021. We now have increased capacity to integrate different streams of scientific information, not just from data and monitoring systems, surveillance and ways forward, etc., but also from the scientific literature, which is certainly making it easier for us to produce risk assessment and threat reports. We're now using this centre and the methodologies to integrate laboratory genomics, epidemiology and clinical information of new variants of concern, and those updates have been shared with provincial, territorial and other partners as well.
While the methodology is being stabilized, we should be able to provide more of that in the public domain—although it's very technical information—so that people can see in a more transparent way how integrated risk assessments are done.