Madam Speaker, I will start by saying to my hon. colleague from Glengarry—Prescott—Russell that I look forward to the day when we are back in the House of Commons again.
I am going to ask the hon. member to reflect on the answer I would have given the member for Kingston and the Islands when I was in the queue. That member said that he really did not see the benefit of greater coordination. To be clear, the Greens are saying we need a different structure. If it is not the Emergencies Act, it is something else, such as a task force, and something that works.
We just saw reports this week. What difference would it make? The Emergencies Act, for example, allows the government to decide where critical supplies should go. That would include vaccines.
We are getting reports that Ontario has for political reasons not listened to science and has not delivered vaccines to the places where they are most needed. Low-income, racialized communities with high levels of COVID were not given the vaccines they should have received, in preference for areas where Conservative voters predominate. I do not know if this is true, as it is a media report, but it is absolutely wrong. It verges on the criminal. Certainly there is more we should do to ensure that vaccines go where scientists say they should go.