Health committee  There's no easy way for me to say this, but Dr. Tam was not being truthful. In the week or 10 days.... Pardon me, I don't know the exact time span between her statement that masks were not to be recommended to the public and then changing her view to give permissive guidance tha

Health committee  Australia, for instance, was very quick at cutting off travel with China. It did so at the same time as President Trump did, but for sounder reasons than Mr. Trump. It was also incredibly quick at organizing coordination between the states—the provinces, if you will—and the fede

Health committee  Mr. Webber, you summarized that exactly right. Back in SARS, there were two countries in the world that got slammed with a WHO travel advisory, and we were one. China, not exactly having been honest, shall we say, was the other. Now, we weren't trying to deceive, the way China wa

Health committee  Dr. Kitchen, thank you for a very intelligent question. You're exactly right. You mentioned there were roughly 38,000 cases in the data that you looked at. I'm going by memory here, but I think we've had about 80,000 cases reported in Canada so far, so that's under 50%. What that

Health committee  There are obvious problems with that.

Health committee  Again, I am not a testing expert. What I can say is that it's obviously a systemic and administrative problem, because for Ethiopia or Rwanda to be surpassing us in testing.... They're getting the reagents and supplies from somewhere. They are pulling it off. I did mention the c

Health committee  In terms of bending the curve, or the testing, specifically?

Health committee  In terms of bending the curve, Dr. Fisman can be more detailed on this, but it's clear that we have not adopted as rigorous a lockdown as some other countries have. We've also had a slow-burning problem in the care homes and this has taken what could have been a sharp peak and br

Health committee  I don't understand it either. It's almost dangerous to think of our Confederation as 10 provinces that are not connected through their biomedical resources, especially considering the virus that's connecting us right now. You are right.

Health committee  To answer more effectively, I have to speak in English. May I?

Health committee  I'm sorry, but some of the legal words I don't know in French. I try. The order in council that would be necessary to make data exchange mandatory between the federal government and the provinces is not a controversial thing. It is something that Parliament put into the law in,

Health committee  You are right that scientific issues are often politicized, and that was the case with the border closure. In my view, the purpose of closing the border is to protect us, especially in the case of the U.S. border. However, as you already know, the WHO says that it is almost usel

Health committee  I can't even believe that's a question. Of course, it has to be public. Science is always conducted in public. If you look at a country like Switzerland, they too have a task force on COVID, a scientific task force. If you go to the website over two dozen public reports by that t

Health committee  What a great question, thank you. On the question of sharing epidemiological data, it's like this: If you had a number of people who had pieces of a map of a minefield, would you tolerate them not sharing that data? I think you'd probably want to have a map of the entire minefie

Health committee  I'm sorry.