Along with the vaccine mandate, Canada has taken that multi-layered approach and implemented a number of other mechanisms to reduce the risk to Canadians' health and to increase their health security. That included testing as well as quarantine, isolation and masking. When you take all those measures together, as Dr. Tam has said on previous occasions, it has gone far in protecting the health of our population.
On August 19th, 2022. See this statement in context.