Thank you.
I was just reading about how Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., has declined to implement the U.K. contact-tracing app in favour of adopting a solution that's compatible with the Republic of Ireland, with which they share an island, because that's their choice. They're thinking in terms of where their people are travelling and where their people are moving.
I think we started off small for a while. Ottawa Public Health was talking about adopting a contact-tracing app at a time when nobody was leaving Ottawa, we were all staying home, and that's where we needed an app. But now we're going to start opening things up and we need an Ontario app.
When Alberta adopted its app, the push-back, which I think you are feeling right now as parliamentarians, was that we needed a national solution, because as soon as we start opening things up people are going to be travelling across the country. If you don't have something that works across borders, then it's not going to be particularly useful, especially, of course, here in Ottawa where we share a border with Quebec and people travel back and forth all the time.
I think as our circumstances change so does the vision of what we have to deal with, which has an impact on what technology we adopt. This is all moving so quickly that I think it's been hard to adapt and respond to it. Again, I'm going to make a plug for thinking about the next thing, which is workplace employment contact tracing. I think this is the big wave that's coming and I think it's going to be a really important one.