Mr. Chair, the Government of Canada has provided significant funding and resources to support the response to COVID-19. We have invested more than $19 billion to help the provinces and territories through the safe restart agreement. This also includes $4.5 billion to purchase PPE for national use and an additional $3 billion to province and territories for their own PPE investments. It was federally funded.
On June 7th, 2021. See this statement in context.