Matthew Green at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On May 15th, 2020. See this statement in context.

May 15th, 2020 / 12:20 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

I think I've exhausted that. I know I've probably exhausted Ms. Thornton, so I'll stick with you, Mr. Matthews.

We heard today that 11.5 million respirators have been received to date, and yet 9.9 million N95 respirators were assessed—thanks to the good work, I should say, of PHAC—as not meeting the specifications. Based on the earlier line of questioning, is it safe for me to assume that Deloitte's role in procurement in terms of quality verification failed miserably here, or was it something other than Deloitte?

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