Mr. Chair, I am sure the member opposite knows that the provinces and territories have a network of distribution they control as the deliverers of health care. Our job at the federal level is not to usurp their role of distributing personal protective equipment and medical devices in a way that is appropriate to their own particular needs and their own surge, but rather to respond to their requests for additional support for either equipment or for personal protective devices that protect their front-line staff. That is exactly what we have been doing: taking our lead from provinces and territories, making sure that we can support them in their work to distribute this equipment where it is needed most.
In the House of Commons on April 20th, 2020. See this statement in context.