Our audit findings confirm that the NESS, the national emergency strategic stockpile, had not established what, and how much, should be stockpiled for a public health emergency. We also found that there were opportunities to improve the way they managed information, their information system. These are important things that the Public Health Agency of Canada knew about from internal audits and we had hoped that they would have taken action on some of these long-standing issues.
We were happy to see that the agency had reacted quickly during the pandemic to address the increased needs of the provinces and territories and worked with them to meet their needs, as—