I get it when it comes to surge, but it feels like it's a surge all the time when you have a tenfold increase of outsourcing to these big companies.
I'll speak about big companies a little bit.
We know there are thousands of skids in the national emergency strategic stockpile that are ready to expire soon. When it comes to resupplying the stockpile, is PSPC going to sole-source the tenders to these billionaire multinationals or are they actually going to give small and medium-sized Canadian companies the chance to bid on the replacement of these supplies?
In the House in 2021, a unanimous consent motion was passed to provide Canadian-made PPE to Parliament and federal government departments. A year later, the foreign-made PPE is still being supplied to the government. Why hasn't this motion been honoured? What are you going to do to intend that SMEs get a share of that?