Thanks, Mr. Chair.
I agree with my colleague Monsieur Paul-Hus. I thought it would take two to three minutes to pass Madame Vignola's motion here, and it's going to be 24 hours before it's approved.
Thinking about Mr. Housefather's points on the WTO.... I mean, how many times has Justin Trudeau said “made-in-Canada solution”? I have Doug Ford's “made-in-Ontario solution”. I'm sure Monsieur Legault had a “made-in-Quebec solution”. In Navdeep Bains' words, “made-in-Canada supply is essential.” Minister Anand, who was at that time public service and procurement minister, right here in Ontario said, “Made in Canada. Enhanced Canadian supply.” There are 50,000 examples here, and I'm sure they are all well in compliance with what they said.
The other thing, which almost makes me think we should have a study on this now, is that if procurement, or whomever would be responsible for these inventories, doesn't know how many there are, that would raise a serious alarm bell to me, because it would seem that your inventory levels would trigger a purchase. If you don't know what your inventories are and you just keep pumping out these purchase orders, how many gazillion masks are out there and we just keep buying them?
If we're in this disarray in year six of the Liberal government.... I didn't come here to be political today; I came here to pass her motion. Now I'm thinking we need to have a 10-part series on how many masks and PPE are in the country. Now, I'm really concerned.
We'll worry about the motion right now, but this is blowing my mind that Mr. Housefather thinks perhaps nobody knows how many masks there are in this country.
I'll cede my time. I think I made my point.
I see that Mr. Housefather is not happy with my comments. That's fine, but these are all my points. Maybe I took them out of context, but I think that's pretty much what he said. There's no issue with made in Canada, there's no issue with made in Quebec, made in Ontario, where they're made. I mean, the government gave them grants. I say let's get on with it to see if we can't find another thing to look at or conclude the meeting here today.