Mr. Speaker, certainly this is a serious disease. We need to acknowledge that we must continue to monitor the situation.
Dr. David Heymann, executive director, communicable diseases at the World Health Organization had this to say today:
SARS is the global emergency. We need to get this disease under control and contain it. We made our recommendation based on three criteria. The criteria no longer apply to Canada and they have been taken off the list. We did not make our decision based on something that Canada was doing wrong. Canada was doing everything right, including screening passengers as they left.