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Government Operations committee Thank you for the question, Mr. McCauley. Having been in business for the better part of 20 years, and with primarily an international focus to date, we have quite an extensive supply line all around the world. Traditionally, the vast majority of our supplies would come from No
May 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Pat Whalen
Government Operations committee At present, the focus is on the reagents. That has been the bottleneck. To perform these types of tests, you need to have, as has been mentioned, swabs. You need to have reagents. You need to have disposable plastic parts. You need to have equipment and you need to have trained p
May 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Pat Whalen
Government Operations committee The federal government is doing the primary procurement and then the distribution of the products to the different provincial health laboratories. We do have some interface, simply by virtue of shipping product to those provincial health laboratories, but the contract is with Can
May 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Pat Whalen
Government Operations committee The vast majority of our production is actually in Canada, right here in Fredericton, and we intend to continue down that track. We're not currently ramping up anything in other countries. We're making Canada the focus. In fact, we're breaking ground on a brand new production fac
May 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Pat Whalen
Government Operations committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I want to thank all of the committee members for the opportunity to be here today to speak about LuminUltra's role in providing essential COVID-19 testing supplies. I will aim to keep this brief so that we will have ample time for questions,
May 1st, 2020Committee meeting
Pat Whalen