Thank you.
As always, it's a pleasure to have the Auditor General before this committee.
I often talk about how there's a bit of a blur between public accounts and OGGO. However, public accounts was fortunate to receive a response with respect to Ms. Hogan's appearance before the public accounts committee on June 1 which discussed the report we're dealing with today regarding the government's preparedness and responsiveness to COVID. In that committee, I raised some questions, as did my colleague Mr. Berthold, about the responsiveness and preparedness of the government in the months leading up to COVID. We have seen in this report—and it's often talked about—the government's response on the bulk procurement of critical and lifesaving PPE.
Through you, Mr. Chair, to Ms. Hogan, our Auditor General, in your response based on your audit period, you referenced the 56 requests for assistance to the national emergency strategic stockpile. These requests included PPE and medical devices and are within the scope of your audit. You released a table that shows the types of personal protective equipment and medical devices that the provinces and territories requested. I have access to this by way of its being posted on public accounts. I'll share it with this committee. I'll run down it.
There were close to seven million medical gowns requested but only 790 were shipped, so only about 12% were received. There were 3,261,935 N95 masks requested but only 130,380 were shipped, which is about 4%. There were 45,000 test swabs requested by the provinces and only 20,700 were delivered, a 46% success rate. With respect to ventilators, it is listed by the Auditor General that 538 ventilators were requested by the provinces and only 96 were shipped, a success rate of about 18% on the shipping.
Is it safe to say that in its response to the provinces, the federal government shipped everything it had in the national emergency strategic stockpile to the provinces?