Mr. Chair, as I think everyone is aware, the Minister of Health is leading the federal response to H1N1, and that includes the department as well as the Public Health Agency of Canada. They're working with provinces and territories on the Canadian pandemic influenza plan.
Public Safety Canada does indeed have a role. Our job is to provide leadership and coordination of a whole-of-government response, which means a few things. One is that we have led the efforts to ensure that all departments and agencies have pandemic plans in place in the event that we reach a level of criticality where operations are affected.
In September of this year we assessed the pandemic readiness levels for federal institutions that provide critical services to Canadians, and we undertook a second round of those assessments in November. Of the 49 institutions responsible for the delivery of critical services to Canadians, they now show a strong degree of overall readiness and we're quite pleased with the effort that has gone into that.