Thank you, Madam Chair.
We have ongoing discussions with the suppliers about schedules. They start in earnest as regulatory approval gets closer. The notional quarterly allocations were set out in the summer, long before production was up and running.
We do have discussions with suppliers about the need for a steady, even flow of product for that very reason. We do want our provinces and territories to have time to ramp up. We are still in relatively early days. I think the first doses started arriving in the third week of December.
The plan is for those companies to ramp up production. As they do, Canada gets an increased allocation on an upward curve. That matches the ability of the provinces and territories to ramp up their delivery efforts right alongside the production ramp-up that companies are actually seeing.