Madam Speaker, I mentioned earlier that I was talking to a friend who is an infectious disease specialist. He is really concerned about the volume of unnecessary international travel that is happening, especially as we have new variants of the virus out there right now, the South African virus and the U.K. virus, which are spreading more quickly and are deadlier. He said that it is critical that as we are reducing the spread in Ontario and Quebec, we use all barriers to keep transmission low. The last thing we need is one of these variants to be even worse or something that we do not have a vaccine for to protect our citizens against.
If we look at what other countries are doing, such as 14-day quarantines in place at hotels that those countries pay for, instead of having a piece of paper with which people are expected to play the honour system, does my colleague not agree that we need to do more to make sure that we are lowering the spread and stopping international travel, or at least ensuring that we are protecting our citizens as people come home?