Health committee  To add to what my colleague mentioned, the government operations centre was started from day one to involve our team looking at producing an after-action report. We have some members of the team who will be there to take some notes and to prepare that report once we know the time

Health committee  As far as the Emergencies Act is concerned, I'm no legal expert, but I can tell you that it's worded in such a way that certain criteria must be met to determine whether it's useful. It's very important to know where there is no leverage or legislative tool. The goal isn't necess

Health committee  Thank you for your question. I'll be able to give you more details on this at a later date.

Health committee  We don't have more than three levels to activate the government operations centre. Dorian, if my memory is right, happened last September. At that point, we activated at level three to coordinate a response and work with lead departments. The way that the government operations c

Health committee  To complement that work, vast work has been done by different departments. For instance, we've been reaching out to provinces and territories to find out what the need is for PPE outside of the health sector. We did that last week, and what we heard from the provinces, like Alber

Health committee  Thank you for the question. At level one, for instance, the government operations centre will develop detailed authoritative reporting of significant information from a multitude of sources about the event, which it disseminates to federal emergency response partners to support

Health committee  I would defer to my colleagues at the Public Health Agency, because when it comes to the health sector, that information, that data, was collected by Health Canada and the Public Health Agency.

Health committee  This is outside my area of responsibility. I will take this back, and we can provide the information.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. I have a few comments on that front. I believe—and we heard it from all provinces and territories and other partners, and also from different federal ministers and the Prime Minister—that there has been incredible collaboration among diffe

Health committee  The government operations centre has a platform, so all the subject matter experts are continually working together. In the case of the PPE, the personal protective equipment, for instance, we would work under the leadership of the Public Health Agency and the health department

Health committee  Okay. Thank you. There are three key points. First, the government operations centre was activated on January 23, 2020. The activation was carried out progressively, from level 1 to level 3. We moved to level 3 on February 2. Second, the departments were already working togethe

Health committee  I'm saying that the protocol was very significant. All the officials needed to look to science to provide the best advice on what to do.

Health committee  Thank you for your question. I'm not in a position to comment. I can easily refer the matter to my colleagues at the Canada Border Services Agency. They're in a better position to comment on this issue.

Health committee  Thank you for your question. I'll respond by talking about three points—

Health committee  Okay.