Health committee  There are now requirements for pre-departure testing for arrivals in Canada through our land borders. That came into force on February 15, specifically to the point the member has raised.

Health committee  Mr. Chair, I will start off and then I may turn to a colleague with respect to what we're seeing in terms of the rates of positivity of imported cases. Certainly we would look at the travellers coming in and the rates of positivity that we're seeing from those travellers, includ

Health committee  As I mentioned, one of the important things is taking a multi-layered approach in our public health measures and having effective quarantine measures, particularly at the front end where the infectious period is developing, which is an important aspect of that—

Health committee  As I've said, one of the key pieces of evidence for the Public Health Agency was with respect to our understanding of the rates of the variants that were happening, how we are aware of the rates of positivity of travellers who are coming into Canada, our conversations with our ch

Health committee  I'm certainly happy to take that question back to the department and look for—

Health committee  For clarity, Mr. Chair, and just to bring forward the rationale in support of this—

Health committee  Mr. Chair, we'd be happy to take that question back to the department and bring forward information that's available with respect to adherence to quarantine measures. Thank you.

Health committee  When we look at the border measures, important conversations that we have occur at our special advisory committee where we have discussions with our chief public health officer as well as with the chief medical officers of health for all the provinces. An important aspect of that

Health committee  Mr. Chair, if I may finish my answer, similarly, we look to other jurisdictions that are experiencing issues with the variants to see what measures they may have employed with success, and the U.K. certainly figured in the look that we had at other models.

Health committee  The jurisdiction for the federal government and for the Public Health Agency of Canada with respect to the Quarantine Act is only as it applies to our federal borders. From that perspective, any restrictions on interprovincial travel would be in the purview of the provinces and t

Health committee  When we're looking at the prevention of the importation of COVID-19 cases, that would include the concerns we would have with respect to the influence of the variants and the increases in the variants—

Health committee  What we can again reiterate is there is a need for a multi-layered approach with our public health measures. There is not one single measure that is going to work on its own. There's the combination of effective quarantine, for having the implementation of testing, and we've intr

Health committee  Mr. Chair, maybe I could just speak in general to the implementation of our border measures. In terms of trying to bring the pandemic under control, we're wanting to have public health measures that address preventing community spread as well as the importation of cases. Canada

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members, thank you for this opportunity to speak to you about COVID-19 variants and the actions the Public Health Agency of Canada is taking to protect Canadians during this pandemic. I would like to start with a bit of background information on variants

Health committee  Very early on in our process we make use of our federal, provincial and territorial mechanisms. As early as December 31, our chief public health officer, Dr. Tam, engaged with the Canadian council of chief medical officers of health. In addition, as part of our federal-provincial