Mr. Speaker, I am enthusiastic about the questions I am getting from the NDP and the Greens because they are asking questions as if I am in government. Obviously they feel that the trend is going in the right direction.
What we have seen is countries around the world like the United States, which is a very similar democratic system as we have here, and the United Kingdom, start to lift restrictions and lift lockdowns because they have access to vaccines, rapid testing, home-based testing, things that we have not had access to here in Canada.
I never said anything about lockdowns. What I am saying is these lockdowns would not have been needed had we had access to those important tools like vaccines.