Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for coming to enlighten us and give us an update on this pandemic so that we can find solutions and face the next pandemic by taking better measures.
My first question is for the Deputy Auditor General, Mr. Hayes.
Mr. Hayes, report number 13 clearly states that several shortcomings were identified with respect to the monitoring and verification of quarantine measures for temporary foreign workers. You mention incomplete or poor quality quarantine inspection, quality issues and delays in outbreak inspections, and a significant backlog of overdue inspections in the agricultural sector.
To what do you attribute these problems?
Don't you think it would have been more effective in terms of controlling the pandemic and the risk of outbreaks if the government had taken over the management of quarantines when the workers arrived, and then sent them on to their facilities or farms?
Wouldn't this have avoided the problems you raise?