Madam Speaker, the government listened to Canadians, provinces, territories, indigenous leaders, many other stakeholders and members on all sides of the House when we introduced new programs because of the pandemic. The programs required some changes, and we did the responsible thing by having ongoing dialogue and making sure we could retool to produce protective gear and have vaccines for Canadians. That has been a priority for the government because we understand and appreciate the difficulties we all have to go through. I would hope members of the opposition would not exaggerate things, such as Liberal contracts. I can assure members that Liberals, New Democrats and Conservatives all received contracts in one form or another. I suspect even some Bloc members received contracts—
In the House of Commons on February 2nd, 2021. See this statement in context.