Mr. Speaker, having been the first minister of a province, I have had my share of Monday morning, Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning, and Thursday morning quarterbacks. Indeed, many of those quarterbacks are still out there and many of them are at the opposite side, and 20 years later they still have advice and views with respect to what took place 20 years ago. So I am very familiar with the problem that he has described.
My one concern in all of this, and I have spoken with many public health officials and in fact have had several phone calls over the weekend from doctors and others, and the one comment that a doctor made, whose name I will not repeat for fear of embarrassing anybody, because he is a respected public health doctor, is that, as he said to me, we have to understand that one of the consequences of the shortages we are experiencing this week is that there are members of vulnerable groups who will not get vaccinated soon enough to protect them from the impact of the illness. He said that could have been prevented if we had not had the shortages and bottlenecks that we had, but we now have them and we have to deal with the consequences of that.
I can only say to the hon. member that part of the job of being in opposition is asking difficult questions and making difficult points.