Thank you for this timely question.
I think we are absolutely in a better spot, of course, than we were even a year ago, despite the arrival of the omicron virus. I think what one would say is that we are carefully monitoring the situation. We will indicate what we know as we go along and provide that data to Canadians, but the bottom line is that we do have tools.
We have vaccines. We have these bivalent boosters. We know how to layer on our personal protective equipment. We can do something about reducing transmission and severe impacts much better than we could before.
While there is uncertainty and we keep monitoring the data and the different variants that we talked about, there's agency. People can do something about this to keep us doing the things that we value the most, like going to school and going to work.