Public Accounts committee  Certainly. I think we can do it as part of the follow-up [Inaudible—Editor].

Public Accounts committee  As part of the APA, we negotiated different clauses of liability. They were done in consultation with Public Health. In terms of comparing it with other types of vaccine, I'm afraid I can't answer that question.

Public Accounts committee  Certainly.

Public Accounts committee  Very briefly, we have received 164 million doses in Canada. Our agreements do give us access to the latest and greatest formulations in pediatrics—

Public Accounts committee  I'll start with your question about Medicago and APA, the 20 million firm doses. This is under active negotiation as we speak, given the news from Medicago and the need for the public health sector to reduce that delivery.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I'm saying that with the recent news from Mitsubishi and Medicago, coupled with the demand and our constant review of contracts, there are active negotiations going on right now looking at the 20 million doses and what can be done to adjust it.

Public Accounts committee  We took the lessons that we learned from the pandemic PPE buy. We really focused on due diligence, understanding and being informed buyers, spending as much time as we could in the planning phases, working with the provinces and territories to look at their ancillary vaccine needs, building a logistics supply chain, being resilient and bringing the whole of government, interdepartmentally, ready to make sure that we could access those supplies or those vaccines as early as possible.

Public Accounts committee  As Harpreet alluded to, we have seven APAs. I think six of them have received regulatory approval. We had an opportunity to purchase up to 412 million doses. Some of those are firm, and some of those are options that are triggered at the request of Canada. We continue to work with all of the suppliers to adjust the supply based on demand.

Public Accounts committee  Each of the APAs has a firm portion to it, usually reflective of the type of—

Public Accounts committee  We do not have the number of firm contracts or firm doses on hand. We'll have to come back to you with details. If I could add a footnote on this, it is a constantly evolving field. For example, there are usually a minimum of 20 million firm doses per APA. There are additional doses related to boosters and various elements, and when there's a decision based on a public health need to trigger options of certain types of platform.

Public Accounts committee  PSPC cannot speak to CanSino. It was not part of the seven APAs we negotiated. It would have to be redirected, I believe, to ISED.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. I am pleased to appear before the committee to discuss the Auditor General's report on securing vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here with me today is Michael Mills, assistant deputy minister of procurement. The Government of Canada worked diligently to secure access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines.

Government Operations committee  We'll have to come back on the specifics of that in terms of what the future suite of work looks like. At this stage, we're hopefully in a ramp-up, but we'll need to see what a steady state looks like.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much for the question. Indeed, we have been working very hard to increase our slate of services along the lines of what we're offering in supporting the accessibility legislation that came into effect a couple of years ago. We're looking at offering the services for Canadians when there are official events, as well as to employees so that everybody can participate in the workplace.