Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister Ng, for your presentation today at the finance committee.
I was listening very carefully to your opening statement. What caught my attention was that you heard from small business owners about the need to be flexible and balanced, so thank you very much on behalf of my constituents and the small businesses in the Vimy riding. It's great that you, your colleagues and the civil servants have been so open in listening and changing as we need to change.
It was a great segue to Mr. Cumming's talking about the supply chain. In the near future, the finance committee will be holding a panel on Canadian self-sufficiency and supply chains. Self-sufficient production of medical equipment and a made-in-Canada solution to COVID-19 are incredibly important issues to me. Can you comment on the steps that this government has taken to ensure that small businesses can play a role in Canadian medical self-sufficiency, whether that be through the production of PPE, medical equipment, testing kits or eventually a vaccine for COVID-19, including potential export opportunities that you may see?