I can answer you quickly, Madam Minister.
We have taken 400 ventilators that were already available from the national emergency strategic stockpile, and 500 new ventilators have been manufactured. That leaves 25,000 that are not needed or may be needed in the future. However, that is far too many. We could cancel the contract for the remaining 15,000 ventilators and save the equivalent of the taxes of 25,000 Canadians. Since you don't want to answer, let's continue.
In the November economic update, your colleague Hon. Chrystia Freeland, the Minister of Finance, mentioned that $14.3 billion was for vaccines and therapeutic products. This includes $1.3 billion for COVAX—which is fine—and $2 billion to pay for two doses of vaccine per Canadian. We don't know where the other $11 billion goes.
Here's my question. Should we pay the companies even if we don't need the hundreds of millions of doses of the suite of vaccines you have famously reserved, yes or no?