Let me begin by again saying thank you to all the very many people who are involved in this, including all the witnesses. I know it's difficult work. I know you're trying hard to keep up the good work.
The response to Mr. Kitchen's question was that we're trying to take a common approach among the provinces. Maybe we should have national standards as to who gets tested for COVID-19 and national benchmarks as to how quickly the tests get done. For example, I know with respect to testing that until recently tests that were done in Thunder Bay were taking up to seven days to come back, whereas I was hearing vastly different numbers, such as one day in other parts of the country. So maybe we need to look at setting up those national standards so places like Thunder Bay or Nunavut don't end up with much inferior services compared to other places.
The situation we want to get to is basically something like the one in Singapore, which seems to do a lot of testing. Basically everyone who has cold-like symptoms gets tested. If you look at their numbers, you'll see that they've done exceedingly well. That's more a comment than a question.
Mr. Lucas, in a response to an earlier question, you said that provinces sought help from the federal government with respect to bulk purchases of N95 masks and ventilators. Where are we with that now? I know Ms. Namiesniowski in her earlier remarks said something about the number of ventilators, but the line was very poor and full of static, and I didn't really catch that. Could you give us some specifics on what we're doing with N95 masks and the ventilators? Are the purchase orders in, and if so, what kind of ventilators, how many ventilators and how many N95 masks are we talking about?