Certainly.
First, I don't think it was ever imagined that the national emergency stockpile would be able to supply all of Canada in this kind of an outbreak. Keep in mind that SARS was limited to Ontario and B.C. predominantly. H1N1 was a different kind of outbreak, so the types of supplies required were different.
First and foremost, we have to rethink what the national emergency stockpile should look like in the future to respond to the evolution of pandemics.
At the point the shipment was made, I believe it was ascertained that the risk to Canadians was still very low and that this was a way of moving the front line of the pandemic outside of Canada. If we were able to stop transmission in China, we might be able to reduce the numbers here. That's what public health policy tries to do: keep that containment circle as large as possible.
In hindsight, was it the best decision? Possibly not, but I think it was made in good faith, with the best information available at the time.