Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech.
I do not know if he heard the speech I gave a little earlier today. I spoke about several interesting tidbits that I had read in Alec Castonguay's book about the handling of the early days of the pandemic. I do not know whether he has also read it.
I learned that the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, which reports directly to the Public Health Agency of Canada, was unable to sound the alarm in December 2019 about the virus in Wuhan, China, because of a lack of staff and funding, seeing as Stephen Harper's government had decided in 2014 that these scientists' work was not important enough. The situation did not improve with the arrival of the Liberals in 2015.
This shows that there was no plan for dealing with a pandemic. The Liberal government has proven this from the start. It is flying blind. It had no plan.
Does my colleague believe that it is realistic to give the Liberals 20 days to table a plan for emerging from the crisis and to lift COVID-19 restrictions when the majority of the population has not even been vaccinated yet?