Government Operations committee  I'll take that question. “OIC” stands for “order in council”. It was the instrument that was used to put in place the proper authorities or requirements for the public health measures.

Government Operations committee  That's correct.

Government Operations committee  Yes, it was 70 packages.

Government Operations committee  I can speak to some of the requirements that changed over the course of the pandemic. I believe it was in April of this year that the government decided to implement a vaccine-differentiated border. By that I mean that those individuals who were vaccinated and double-dosed were accorded certain benefits by being vaccinated, once it was proven that vaccination was an effective mechanism to protect individuals.

Government Operations committee  I'll take that question, but I'll turn to Chris to provide additional information. In terms of the apps that are developed on behalf of PHAC, such as the ArriveCAN app, the investment, as the president of the CBSA has indicated, is $54 million. With respect to the other apps that were developed, those were predominantly led by Health Canada; therefore, we cannot speak to the cost of those apps.

Government Operations committee  It's fair to say it operationalized the multi-layered approach, yes.

Government Operations committee  Excuse me, I'll be responding. As I understand it, the request that had been made by the committee did not include promotion, and therefore it was excluded.

Government Operations committee  I'll be responding. You have to remember that the ArriveCAN app was merely a tool to operationalize the OICs. The OICs were the meat of the Canadian response. It was a multi-layered approach to protecting Canadians' health, as well as our health care system. From our perspective, based on a number of assessments, the OICs that were operationalized by ArriveCAN have obviously contributed to protecting the health and safety of our population.

Government Operations committee  Good morning. My name is Jennifer Lutfallah. I'm the vice-president of health security and regional operations at the Public Health Agency. I'll just underscore a few points that are contained in my speaking points, which I think you do have. At the onset of the pandemic, monitoring health measures at the border was a paper-based process.

Transport committee  Along with the vaccine mandate, Canada has taken that multi-layered approach and implemented a number of other mechanisms to reduce the risk to Canadians' health and to increase their health security. That included testing as well as quarantine, isolation and masking. When you take all those measures together, as Dr.

Transport committee  We do on-site verification as well, based on the risk that the individual may pose with respect to non-compliance. In very limited circumstances, after we have the on-site verification, which is usually done by a security company, we will refer some of those more egregious cases to police of jurisdiction.

Transport committee  I will have to get that number for you. I don't have it readily accessible.

Transport committee  With respect to the measures that have been put in place as a result of COVID-19, we've undertaken a multipronged or multi-layered approach. With respect to a mandate based on vaccination, obviously a vaccination mandate would mitigate the importation of COVID-19 as well as decrease the potential for infection and severity.

Transport committee  There's a multipronged approach that's being used for quarantine follow-up. Quarantine is generally applied for individuals who are unvaccinated or deemed unvaccinated because they were unable to provide us vaccine credentials. We at the Public Health Agency have an escalation protocol, if you want to call it that, where we will start with phone calls.

Transport committee  I'm sorry.