Mr. Matthews, on April 10, 2020, the Toronto Star reported that a shipment of more than 100,000 testing swabs that had recently arrived in Ontario were contaminated and unusable. That shipment was the first shipment of an order procured by the federal government with hundreds of thousands more from the contaminated batch on the way. I'm curious. How is it possible that the federal government procured hundreds of thousands of contaminated swabs? What quality control measures are put in place for a federal medical supply procurement, and if we have them in place, why did they fail in that particular case?
On April 15th, 2020. See this statement in context.