Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Ms. Hall and Ms. Lennox, for your very passionate testimonies.
Ms. Hall, I'll start with you.
Provincial governments have increased protections for seniors in long-term care homes throughout the pandemic by limiting visitors, providing staff with personal protective equipment and preventing employees from working at multiple homes. Ms. Lennox, I believe, just alluded to this, but in your opinion, should the federal government have intervened earlier so that these steps would have been taken earlier?