In the survey that I mentioned, we actually found that almost a quarter of the companies that responded had shifted to manufacturing some type of PPE—face shields, masks, gowns—and that's right across the country. The response has been incredible. It really has. I think Canada should be incredibly proud of what the manufacturing sector has done; certainly, I am. I'm a long-time advocate for the sector, so of course I'm always proud of them, but I think it really has shown the critical value that manufacturing can bring to the country.
At the same time, I don't think we need to shut ourselves off from the world and say that we need to make all this stuff at home, in part because we're never going to be able to manufacture everything that we might possibly need for any type of crisis. Those trade agreements and our relationships with other countries are really, really important. I think what happened with the United States through part of this was regrettable, but thankfully it got sorted out through a lot of hard work by a lot of people.
Something we've talked about with some officials, for example, is, could we create something like a defence procurement act like we have with the United states to introduce something around PPE and other critical devices [Technical difficulty—Editor].