It reminds me of the last time I was at HUMA, in a previous role. We were talking about the good work that can be done as provincial health authorities work more closely with a modernized federal government system.
Part of the disconnect in this case specifically is that when an incident happens, provinces and territories are reporting at some time in the future—it's different for every province and territory—as to when the event occurred, and then that initiates the federal process, which is inconsistent. Realistically, we would want this to be consistent across the board.
With regard to rural ridings specifically, a lot more work can be done not just in cleaning up legislation like this, but in making sure that individuals have real-time access to their government, whether it be on their phone or on their computer, wherever they happen to be in Canada. We need to make sure that citizens in the most remote parts of this country can access their government 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
