Health committee  I'll try to remember all of them. First of all, let me start with the SARS 1 and the quarantine. I was talking about SARS 1. SARS 1 was a disease that was not transmissible asymptomatically and was not even transmissible in its early symptomatic stage, so quarantine made zero se

Health committee  One really profoundly unfortunate thing about what's happened in Canada, where we in fact did the lockdown in advance of our outbreak, unlike many places in western Europe or in the United States, is that in a sense we've had the worst of both worlds. We have achieved very little

Health committee  As I was saying, 15 years ago, the vision I had hoped we would adopt was not so much one of a federal agency, but a national agency. We had some resources with the federal government, but it was also a time when Ontario was developing Public Health Ontario and British Columbia wa

Health committee  Thank you, Helena, and thank you again for arranging my invitation to this meeting. It's been great. It's been fascinating listening to David and Amir. Maybe at some point I'll have a chance to rebut some of the other things that have been said. On the notion of having a nationa

Health committee  I'm sorry. The idea emerged almost 20 years ago—I actually wrote an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on this—of really proposing a national agency that would fulfill some of those roles. I think we had an opportunity 15 years ago after SARS, when there was t

Health committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, it's a privilege to speak with you today. I'm a retired physician. I practised medicine for 40 years in two specialties: public health and internal medicine. I worked in local public health for 15 years. I was Ontario's chief medical offic