I think it's good that we're meeting in person. It allows us to see each other and see the management problems we have.
We believe this event requires immediate investigation. We're talking about $137 million in overpayments by the Government of Canada for ventilators that should have cost $100 million at most instead of $237 million. There is also the obvious link between former Liberal MP Frank Baylis, who works through an intermediary, and the government.
Everyone knows about this story, it's public, and it's the job of this committee to get to the bottom of it. It will not put the safety and lives of Canadians at risk, as the Liberals have been saying all day. We are talking about a $237 million contract. That is a quarter of a billion dollars, for those who can count. We have a right to know what is going on with this contract and how Frank Baylis was able to get it through indirect means.