Thank you very much.
Thank you to all our witnesses for joining us today.
Thank you for the opportunity to join your committee. I really appreciate it.
Earlier today, the CBC ran a story about two million N95 masks and approximately 400,000 gloves that were thrown into a landfill last year when the national emergency strategic stockpile warehouse in Regina, Saskatchewan, was closed. The story goes on to state that the gloves and masks had been purchased in 2009, that they had expired in 2014 and were thrown away in 2019.
Before I ask my questions, I do understand that PSPC had nothing to do with that decision. The NESS is managed by the Public Health Agency of Canada. However, I do have some questions for PSPC.
Can you tell us how much PPE your department has purchased on behalf of PHAC or the NESS in the past 10 years?