Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Allow me to first thank both ministers for being here on such short notice. Most importantly, thank you for for all the incredible work not only that you do, but certainly all your staff and all the officials have been doing on behalf of all Canadians since the start of this pandemic a year ago.
We're talking about the importance of strong quarantine measures that were announced last month specifically. Even prior to that, we actually had some of the strictest quarantine measures in place since the start of this pandemic back in March.
Minister Hajdu, maybe I can start with you. Can you perhaps talk about why these very strong and specific hotel quarantine measures were implemented in the first place?