I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to agree with the premise of the question. I don't think the emergency management plans have been ignored. I think they have been functioning as they were laid out.
Obviously, the pandemic is an event of a magnitude that was, in a sense, unprecedented. If you go back to the Spanish flu, perhaps that would be equivalent.
We've had plans in place for interdepartmental coordination, which is what the Department of Public Safety does to work with the Public Health Agency of Canada, other provinces and territories and their emergency management organizations.