I would say that, as the Deputy Prime Minister has been widely quoted in the press as saying, there is a bit of a Wild West internationally in terms of efforts to procure these kinds of supplies. I'll be frank with this committee that I'm not directly involved in the international procurement of these supplies. That's run by Public Services and Procurement Canada, so some of the specific answers to those questions would have to be directed to them.
What I will say is that the concerns around the difficulty procuring items are one of the key motivating factors in our ministry working to scale up domestic production. When we are actually working with Canadian firms in an effort, in some cases, to shift their production into manufacturing things such as medical gowns or ventilators, one of the things we look at with those companies is potential vulnerabilities in their supply chain. We want to make sure that when we're contracting with Canadian firms, we're able to ensure that they're able to deliver and that they're not, for example, reliant on important components that may be coming from abroad or coming from sources out of the country that are risky. That is part of the context in which we do our domestic manufacturing scale-up work, but my organization and I personally are not directly involved in overseas purchases. Those are led by PSPC.