Health committee  Actually, I think it came very close.

Health committee  We're hoping that we can engage in this form of dialogue. That's our reason for being here today.

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, we have received some communication. We received, actually last week, a communication from the federal government directed at the front-line responders—police, fire, paramedics. However, it was a very short communication. It was very succinct and had only very basic information.

Health committee  Yes, Madam Chair. We were involved during SARS ourselves and we had to respond. We had a number of situations that were totally under the radar because all the attention was on the health aspect and on hospitals. Meanwhile, for example, our bus operators threatened to walk off the job completely, en masse, because they felt that they had inadequate protection during SARS.