Yes, many of our members did. A lot of us were already supplying the COVID wards in hospitals. We supplied the whole centre of the province. The hospitals, the ambulance, fire services, front-line workers, and every single doctor's office throughout Thompson Okanagan was supplied with hand sanitizer free of charge. We even did the Border Services Agency. We had calls from everywhere. Everyone was asking, and it would have been the same in every province. We just shipped as much as we possibly could.
For a fee-for-contract thing, yes, you could do that. Some companies did, and early on they did fairly well, but then when these massive contracts came in and the market got flooded with this cheap overseas sanitizer, the stuff that was produced here was, at a dollar cost, worth more than the cheap stuff that was coming in. At the same time, that hadn't generated any jobs here. People were on CERB, and so the government was, in effect, double spending. You were buying sanitizer from overseas while all of these other producers were here, but you were paying people CERB to stay at home so we couldn't even operate. In other words, I think it could have been managed a lot better and actually something almost like the War Measures Act could have been used to keep Canadian companies going for the betterment of Canada.