Thank you for the question.
I will give a number of points of information. There are three consortia and companies that were announced recently that will be providing 30,000 ventilators made in Canada: StarFish Medical, Ventilators for Canadians and CAE. In addition, there is the project led by Dr. Art McDonald which you mentioned, and that will come later in the process. We're working on the manufacturing partnerships for that project right now.
The ventilators that were chosen were selected by an expert review committee involving respiratory specialists, medical professionals and front-line staff. They had to assess whether this equipment would be sufficient to be used in their work settings, would be efficacious and would provide the treatment. Also, importantly, this is regulated equipment that Health Canada had to look at to determine whether they would be able to certify the equipment, as well, for use.
In selecting these three projects, we essentially had all that worked out at the same time through an agile process, in order to ensure that we would be providing equipment that would, obviously, be used and that would meet the tests of the health system and the health professionals, which is the point I think you're raising in terms of whether the ventilators have the right configuration and complexity to provide the right support for the patients. That's something we built into the process that we designed.