Anita Anand at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On March 24th, 2021. See this statement in context.

March 24th, 2021 / 5 p.m.

Liberal

Anita Anand Liberal Oakville, ON

I wish to clarify that I did not order 40,000 ventilators. The PSPC undertook contracting at the request of both ISED and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

As you know, we're the contracting arm of government. Our role is to respond to the requests. Certainly, during this health crisis, the requests were coming to us from other government departments, and that's exactly what we did.

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