This is the International Health Regulations, which was created in 2005 after influenza outbreaks such as SARS to help facilitate coordinated responses to health threats of global concern.
This is Mark Osborne Humphries' book called The Last Plague, which discusses the Spanish Influenza of 1918 that is known as the deadliest pandemic in history and how it shaped the future of public health politics in Canada.
This is the World Health Organization's Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, created in 2011, which provides a global approach to pandemic influenza preparedness and response and highlights the need for a strengthened world-wide and nation-specific approach.
This is the Public Health Agency of Canada's evaluation of the National Emergency Stockpile System in 2011, which was the most recent evaluation prior COVID-19 and which clearly outlined several recommendations for improvements, many of which were ignored.
This is a NCBI article on Canada's policy response to the H1N1 pandemic and the urgent need to improve Canada's emergency response capabilities in order to respond to future pandemics.
This report was created a few years following the 2003 SARS epidemic by the Deputy Chief Public Health Office David Mowat to discuss the various challenges within the Public Health system and how it must be strengthened to approach the inevitable reality of future public health crises.
This is the 550 page document on The Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector, which was prepared in 2006 and co-written by Dr. Theresa Tam (who would later become the Canadian chief public health officer in charge of fighting the coronavirus).
This document was published a few years after the SARS outbreak and gives an extensive plan to combat almost an identical pandemic to the novel coronavirus.