Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech.
I am always surprised to hear my colleague say that her government is working closely with the provinces to find ways to deal with the variants.
A government needs to be like a responsible parent. A responsible parent would not let their child walk towards a staircase with an open gate. A responsible parent anticipates that their child might fall and closes the gate.
Similarly, in the context of the pandemic, the government should have quickly closed the borders. We would not be talking about variants right now if the government had been the responsible parent it is meant to be and had closed the borders when necessary, instead of taking a laissez-faire approach.
I would like to hear my colleague's thoughts on this statement, which seems reasonable to me, in light of current circumstances, as we are under the threat of a third wave of the COVID‑19 pandemic.