Health committee  If I understand correctly, the question is with regard to the use of data for the development of broader relief programs. Relief programming is beyond the ambit of the Department of Health. Many departments, including the Department of Finance and others, would be intimately invo

Health committee  As I mentioned earlier, the common dataset that's been agreed to by public health officials has been one of the key developments in trying to bring a more holistic public health data lens to COVID. I would suggest Dr. Tam may wish to add to this point, given her exposure to thi

Health committee  We have been taking a very collaborative approach with provinces and territories around the collection and aggregation of data across the country, particularly as it relates to COVID-19, through the special advisory committee that was referenced earlier, which includes public hea

Health committee  Our focus has been on working collaboratively with provinces and territories.

Health committee  As Minister Hajdu referenced earlier in her remarks, work is ongoing with a number of partners to test the opportunities to use testing at the border. At this point, we have not done comprehensive analysis around what would be required to scale up to travel levels that existed pr

Health committee  A number of rapid tests have been approved, most recently antigen tests, in terms of deployment at the border. There are some discussions now with a number of airport authorities around the potential to move forward with pilot projects, and of course we do have the use of PCR tes

Health committee  As the minister referenced, we are very much focused on building our evidence base to make good decisions, positive decisions, around the safe reopening of Canada's borders. The pilots that are under way now will help provide additional data points for that, and we are looking to

Health committee  It's very important for the safety of the Canadian public that tests that are approved by the regulator are tests that are deployed in any way, shape or form to support screening or testing needs in Canada. At this point, we do have a number of approved tests. Some are now availa