There are, kind of, several main sets of activity. If you go back to a year ago or a year and a half ago, we did not have a vaccine rollout machine under Major General Fortin. It just didn't exist. There was a small group who knew a lot about vaccines, who understood the vaccine manufacturing industry and who understood the value of different vaccines and so on, but those, of course, were focused on traditional vaccines, not these new COVID ones. We did not have the ability to purchase, transport from other countries, distribute nationally, work with the provinces on their implementation, do the IT systems, and all these things.
Of that 1,000 people, a significant proportion are just a whole new function that the organization didn't have before.
The same is true with regard to quarantine. As people have pointed out, including the Auditor General, we had a relatively modest complement of people who provided advice to my colleagues, John Ossowski and Denis Vinette, and they were responsive, providing advice to the border services officers. Now we have several hundred people involved in ensuring that people arriving in the country are tested and quarantined and, if we find a positive genetic sequence, making sure that we know whether or not they have a variant of concern.
We have whole new functions in effect that we've had to build out.
Lastly, I'll note that we've been enhancing our science, our public health and our medical knowledge. We've hired several hundred epidemiologists and others in the health practices field to reinforce the health voice within the organization.