Thank you, Chair.
Good morning to everyone, to my colleagues and all of the witnesses.
A lot has been discussed today, and I thank everyone for those questions. I'll try to be as succinct as possible.
First, to the Auditor General, in all sincerity, thank you to you and your team for your work. I did a deep dive in the last couple of days into this report on pandemic preparedness, surveillance and border control measures. It is very thorough, and I expect that from an Auditor General and her team. At the same time, there are a lot of really good recommendations.
I'd like to speak to the border measures on page 28 at paragraph 8.86 in terms of the findings with regard to the CBSA and the CBSA's ability to “quickly...enforce emergency orders prohibiting the entry of foreign nationals”, which was obviously something that the government put in place.
At the same time, there was the Public Health Agency and CBSA's ability to disseminate the pertinent information to the frontline officers in terms of the exemptions or non-exemptions. Can you comment on that for essential workers? It is something that we've had to deal with here at the constituency office several times for businesses and organizations needing essential workers to come to Canada. How has that iterative process happened?