Madam Speaker, there are a couple of very simple reasons.
We cannot wait for weeks for the technology and the capacity of the House of Commons to provide us with the ability to have all members of Parliament participate in a virtual question period. We need more accountability, not less. We should be clamouring. All of us in opposition should be finding more ways to hold the government to account because it has gotten so many things wrong from the beginning.
Remember, it was the current government, as late as early March, that said travel restrictions would not work and that it was not contemplating closing the border. There was advice from the government that people should not use masks, until it indicated that using masks was beneficial. A wage subsidy was set at 10% and had to be raised to 75%.
It is clearly the case that in this pandemic crisis we need more accountability and more oversight, not less.