Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to Ms. Hogan and Mr. Hayes for being here today. I'm sure it has been a long day, but we will keep on getting through it.
Page 6 of report 9 lists the seven advance purchase agreements signed by this government, and the dates for each agreement. It says the first advance purchase agreement was signed in July 2020, and the last was signed in January 2021.
I spent the afternoon on Google, looking up when the American government signed its advance purchase agreements. It started way sooner. The Americans signed their first agreement in March 2020—four months before we signed our first—and their final agreement in July 2020, six months before this government signed their final agreement. As a matter of fact, when this government was getting down to signing its first agreement, the Americans were finishing up on their last one.
Can the audit provide any insight into why this government was so much slower than the Americans when it came to signing these advance purchase agreements?