Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I would like to thank all the witnesses here with us this morning for all the work they have done since the start of the pandemic. Of course, they were doing the work beforehand, as we will discuss. However, during the pandemic, their teams did remarkable work to help us through the crisis and to move forward together.
My first question is for Dr. Kochhar, from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
We went through a public health crisis before, 20 years ago: the SARS crisis. We had commissions, reports, studies, analyses and recommendations. So I would like to know why we were not better prepared, at least in terms of basic equipment, especially given the internal audits that were conducted in 2010 and 2013, as my colleague Mr. Lawrence mentioned. I know that my Conservative party colleagues are also concerned about public health.
Why were we not better prepared?