Thank you, Chair.
To my colleague, Mr. Jeneroux, it's actually directly applicable to me, as an Albertan and a Calgarian, in relation to all the lives that were lost due to some of the poor public health decisions that were made and the advice that was not followed by public health. In terms of scientific modelling, many doctors came forward at the time, asking us to take further action and bring forward further public health measures to protect Canadians.
Over the last year, we had a significant conversation on that in Alberta, where I'm from. I was a councillor with the City of Calgary at that time. Ms. Koutrakis's amendment here is clear: “public health advice and scientific modelling in support of”. I remember on city council at the time conversations in which we asked the province to provide that scientific modelling. I think it would have been great if our municipality and others at the time had had the scientific modelling to support the decision-making process.
That's why I think this amendment that Ms. Koutrakis has brought forward, asking for that, is extremely relevant to the debate today. It's what we should be looking at—making decisions, having a conversation, and having the documents, with the scientific modelling, that can help support the decisions that are being made. I would also like to add that on the decisions recently made by the Minister of Transport, he would have looked at this important information and consulted even many of the folks here today, and others, prior to making the decision.
I think Ms. Koutrakis's amendment is quite appropriate at this time. I think it's quite relevant. I hope all my colleagues here can support her amendment.