Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's nice to be part of this committee for the day.
I guess where I'm going to go is on the credibility, Dr. Tam. One of the concerns I have coming out of the riding of Prince Albert is a lack of credibility now in our government institutions all the way around, and I think it shows automatically when you start to look at the people taking booster shots, for example. The numbers are substantially lower now than they were, let's say, this spring. I think part of that comes back to some of the things that have gone on over this last year.
For example, in Saskatchewan, Dr. Shahab would make a recommendation, and we'd remove masks. I'd fly to Ottawa, and we'd be fully masked. Canadians would say, “How come the science in Saskatchewan says one thing, yet the science in Ottawa says something different?” How do you build credibility back in those scenarios going forward?
What really scares me is that we don't have credibility in the organizations now, and if there was a bad virus that's really bad, where you needed to bring forward the lockdowns and things like we had to do, supposedly, at the start of COVID, Canadians wouldn't listen to you. They would say, “Never. We're never doing this again. We don't trust you. We're not listening to you.” We'd see then the massive deaths that would be the result of that because we don't have credibility or the trust of Canadians.
What is your plan to build back that trust?