We've heard time and time again about modernization, service standards and commodities. It's almost as though this department didn't have any benchmarks to work from.
I would like Ms. Evans to comment on the report that was in fact authored by our own chief public health officer, Theresa Tam, back in 2006, entitled “Canada's Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector”, and in it the requirement to have 16 weeks of stockpile, which would have been good enough for two waves.
Through you, Mr. Chair, would Ms. Evans have been involved in any decisions to deviate from those benchmarks, those national standards, in the lead-up in 2019, when the decision was made to shutter three of the nine national emergency strategic stockpiles, including one location in Regina that threw away two-million N95 masks?