The Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada worked quite closely with the provincial government to launch the pilot that started on November 2. A lot of work went into the launch.
We had to discuss and articulate the measures to protect public health from those who would be released from quarantine. All of us wanted to make sure there would be sufficient testing and contact tracing capacity available for the participants in the pilot. We wanted to make sure that the instructions for participants and for border agents were very clear so that implementation would be smooth. Then there were the legal regimes that exist both federally and provincially for managing quarantine.
It took a lot of effort for both the federal and the provincial government to launch the pilot. I'm not sure exactly how long it took, but I can come back with an estimate of the amount of time.
Now that we have the sample of the pilot with Alberta, it will be a bit easier to talk to other jurisdictions about similar kinds of models because we have worked out some of those details, including things like the collection of data and what information we want to get from the pilot to improve the evidence base for making decisions going forward.