Mr. Chairman, the medical health officer and
the chief medical health officer are constantly in contact with both their colleagues across the provinces and with Health Canada. Health Canada has the initial response in terms of pandemic, a disease that threatens broad ranges of the country. Most recently it was in action during the concerns around the so-called Bird Flu out of Hong Kong. These recent concerns are very much under their scrutiny right now. In the meantime, it has always been a role for the medical health officer to offer advice and direction to the public health staff, including community health nurses around the role of influenza immunization flu shots. They put particular effort on offering that kind of immunization to people that are most at risk, typically elders. I cannot speak to their most recent recommendations in terms of the availability of flu shots for this most recent strain, but while we can confirm that later I am quite confident that they are in very close contact with Health Canada and with their Ontario colleagues at this point. Thank you.