Manufacturers have stepped up with not only N95 masks but also with a range of PPE they have been manufacturing, and have been for a bit already. The problem has been more about what products are needed, who would buy them, how you would get them tested and then who would supply those subcomponents. It's easy to identify one component of a product, but it's a lot harder to identify a lot of the subcomponents. A lot of those supply chains have been stood up relatively quickly, which the manufacturing sector deserves a lot for because of its ability to do that type of work. We're starting to see that output come on stream now.
What more could be done? I was talking to the health committee earlier today, and one of the things we talked about there was more centralized and coordinated procurement. Right now, the procurement side of things is a real mess. That's not a federal government responsibility, but it doesn't even seem to be a provincial government responsibility in some cases. It seems to be the level of local health units, and it's really tough for manufacturers to produce to scale and try to sell to multiple health units across the country, never mind a region or a province. So that would be one thing that would help an awful lot.