Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First we would say that we feel for parents and caregivers. Being parents of young children is a difficult enough job. To try to figure out how to source medications to treat them for pain or fever is just adding to the stress. We're obviously dealing with situations with respiratory viruses now, so we understand that it's really challenging.
Health Canada's role really is a convening function to bring people together to make sure we're sharing information. In terms of Health Canada communications, as soon as we got a proposal from manufacturers to allow additional product to come in and that was approved, we communicated. Before that, we worked through our groups, like the Canadian Paediatric Society and the Pharmacists Association, to figure out what should be communicated to patients and who would be best placed to provide that information. When it's advice to parents about what to do about dosing and alternatives, it really is best placed coming from practitioners and people who are doing the health care delivery.
Certainly we can provide additional information about the communication that we did in Health Canada. Really it was a focus on what Canadians needed to know and who was best placed to provide that information to help them through this shortage situation.