It does, absolutely. I couldn't agree more with that statement. I'm just going to strengthen that by saying that in one of the largest rural ridings in Canada I had lots of ranchers calling my office and saying, “Hey, I just spoke to somebody from Public Health Canada, and they are telling me I can't leave my house to go look after my herd, to go look after my cattle.” That was in the middle of calving season. These people have jobs to do and they're out, literally living hundreds of miles away from any major centre. They're not going into town. They're literally going to look after their herd. It's their livelihood, but it's also, quite frankly, about our food security and looking after our supply chains. They were telling these people they couldn't leave their house.
It was the same thing with our grain farmers. These people were told they couldn't leave their house, and yet their job by nature is isolating. They go sit in the tractor all day and then come back home. They're not at risk of spreading transmission, and yet there was no recognition of this.
To public health, there seemed to be no flexibility. I even had a senior who had a pay-by-use phone. He ran out of minutes on about day three of his quarantine and lost contact because he couldn't call anybody for the next 11 days and couldn't leave his house to go buy more minutes for his cellphone. There seem to be all kinds of gaps like that. I'm just wondering what's being done to rectify those situations and to be willing to consider the fact that not everybody lives in downtown Toronto.