Given the deterioration of the US public health system it is necessary that Canada significantly up its capabilities and capacities in public health and pandemic/ epidemic preparedness. Including our capacity to develop and produce vaccines and new antiviral/ antibacterial drugs.

Smith grotesquely calls a new pipeline a "moral imperative." Nonsense. To approve new fossil fuel infrastructure of this scale in the year 2025 – in the wake of three consecutive summers of the worst wildfires on record – is a willful act of arson...