Thank you.
Ms. Thornton, on April 1, federal health minister Patty Hajdu admitted that the federal government likely did not have enough protective equipment in the national emergency strategic stockpile. She said, “We likely did not have enough. I think federal governments for decades have been underfunding things like public-health preparedness”.
I have two questions. Would you advise this committee that federal governments have been underfunding NESS for decades? At any time in the last 10 years, has PHAC warned the federal government that NESS has been underfunded?