Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Public Health Act provides detailed guidance on the powers of the Chief Public Health Officer. And it is her role to evaluate risks. She has disclosed the documents that she uses. One particular one is from Johns Hopkins University. Another is from the National Chief Public Health Officers Committee that meets fairly regularly that she uses to consider what the risks are.
She is instructed in the legislation to balance the risks with personal freedoms, that the measures that she recommends need to be commensurate to the risk and not to necessarily restrict people from their daily business.
That said, risk assessments are completed by the CPHO. She tells me what she is recommending. We discuss it. She makes the public health order, and it is enforced by the COVID Secretariat at this point, and that is reinforced -- I've got these steps jumbled up.
She makes the advice. She makes a public health order. I sign the state of emergency. And we go on from there.
It's true that the Emerging Wisely Plan is now over a year old, and it is due for an update. And we can say what the Chief Public Health Officer has said, that she is working on it, and it will be available to the public the first week of June. Thank you.