Health committee  Sure. I think we can produce domestic supply, but I think a big part of the problem is figuring out the capabilities and what is needed, and by whom, across the country, and that diffusion of procurement is a really big problem in solving some of those problems, which is one of t

Health committee  I think there are two issues: the supply of the equipment and making sure that there are safe protocols in place on the equipment itself. I would look at this similarly to the way we looked at the CN rail strike. It seems like forever ago now, but it was just a couple of months

Health committee  Sure. Is this better?

Health committee  Okay. It will be very similar to the unclogging after the CN rail strike, which will take four to six weeks at a minimum, and in this case might take longer because of the global supply chains into Asia, and other things like that. That piece in and of itself is not going to be

Health committee  As far as safe handling goes, I think there are protocols that were already put in place and we put out guides on safe material handling. I think our members are working really closely with the trucking industry and others to make sure that's out there, so there are clean protoco

Health committee  I'd say that another good example is that window manufacturers are making the protective barriers as well. I know that a number of our members out west, for example, are doing that type of thing too. There are a lot of examples. I got an answer, too, by the way, that 3,500 manu

Health committee  To be honest, I really don't know how many. I apologize. I wouldn't even know where.... I assume someone inside public procurement would know, but I just don't know.

Health committee  We could try to find out through our [Inaudible—Editor], yes.

Health committee  It's the latter, unfortunately. It was done in 2009, and I think for a year or so it stayed fresh in everyone's mind and then disappeared. At the time, back in 2009-10 when it was produced, it was the most downloaded document from our website in the history of our organization. I

Health committee  Thank you.

Health committee  Well, I guess it was a good thing that they were stopped and caught, right? We have regulatory standards for a reason. What I was worried about, actually, is that the regulatory standards would be loosened in times when people most needed protection and that these things would co

Health committee  We've been working on this issue. Mr. Laskowski mentioned earlier the minister's advisory council on the pandemic responses from supply chains. At CME we've actually been working on a similar committee that predates this by years. We've been sitting on this committee and trying t

Health committee  The support, actually, has been fantastic. There are holes in some of the support programs, but very early on we called for things like the wage subsidy program because we saw the necessity of keeping people on the payroll rather than letting them go when there was a massive decl

Health committee  There are three areas that CME suggests we focus on to improve response times for any possible future crisis. The first is to conduct a complete mapping of Canada’s domestic manufacturing capabilities. The challenge in standing up the domestic supply chain wasn’t who could manu

Health committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. Thank you for inviting me to participate in today's discussions. It is my pleasure to be here on behalf of Canada's 90,000 manufacturers and exporters and our association's 2,500 direct members to discuss COV