Thank you, Monsieur Malo.
Time is a critical aspect of this. Imagine you are a cancer patient or their family and you are finding that you are having weeks of delay with simply having the diagnostic performed to be able to inform what the medical treatment would be. Of course, it backs up and means that the medical treatment itself is delayed. The effect upon health care providers is quite significant as well. Hospitals and diagnostic clinics are finding that they are having to have their staff work significant additional hours and have overtime. It is all connected to the timing of the reactors reactivating and also putting in place the plans, contingencies, and mitigation strategies to enable Ontario's, and I would imagine all Canadian provinces', health care patients and health care providers to be able to deal with this crisis.
As I mentioned earlier, one of the greatest disappointments has been that we had been advised that the timeline for reactivation was to be in the spring of this year. Later, it was the summer of this year. Now it is to be a further eight months from now. We require some certainty to be able to provide the medical diagnostic and medical procedures that Ontario cancer and cardiac patients do require. This is creating a tremendous impact on patients and their families and I don't think the federal government should operate independent of these considerations.