Government Operations committee  In terms of PSPC and the $500 million that is being sought through these estimates, we are basically planning to spend that money on things like charters, some PPE, logistics support, both overseas as well as in Canada, and then some respiratory care units as well. It's largely

Government Operations committee  Thanks. I'll be very quick on this one. With regard to the N95 contracts, it is normal to make advanced payments partial—sometimes in full, but more partial now—but we have made no payments of $100 million for any advanced payment for N95s, so I'm not sure which contract—

Government Operations committee  There are two things there. Roughly speaking, about 40% of our contracts have an advanced payment component on PPE, so I'll start there. It's not the dollar amount, but it's 40% of the contracts. In terms of the orders and how they match up against deliveries, don't picture a g

Government Operations committee  No, that's not correct. What I said was that roughly 40% of our contracts have an advanced payment component, not 40% of the advanced payments....

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, if I could clarify.... I did misspeak earlier when I said that the 12 million masks did not include the ones that were rejected. They do include the ones that were rejected.

Government Operations committee  I just want to clarify that for the record. I apologize for misspeaking.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The member has referred to the website, so of the N95 on the website, the 12.2 million, those are all in and accepted, tested, and good to go. The quality issues the member referred to related to the ones that have not passed testing. There are 10 million

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Minister. I'll add some context to that. The vast majority of N95 masks that we're receiving between now and the end of July are imported from overseas, with the exception of the 3M ones, which come from the U.S. With regard to 3M, it is roughly 500,000 a month, but

Government Operations committee  I'm getting there, Mr. Chair. I'm just doing some math in my head. At the end of last week, we had 12 million N95s imported and accepted. Then, for June and July, we're looking at our target of about an additional 20 million per month, so that should give us our numbers of 40 mi

Government Operations committee  There are a couple of things I would share on this front. You're already seeing a live rethink. It's clear that a high percentage of the PPE that is in demand comes from outside the country and particularly out of China, so you saw a country that was the main supplier for a lot o

Government Operations committee  We can certainly highlight most of the Canadian ones. We are not disclosing the international ones at this stage because we did the procurements under an NSE, a national security exception, and we want to protect our sources because product availability is such a competitive fiel

Government Operations committee  No, not at this stage. As I mentioned, the procurement is being done under an NSE, and we want to protect our supply lines, if I can use those words, while the crisis is at such a competitive stage from a procurement perspective. To properly protect our product, we do not want to

Government Operations committee  The product is not, in fact, in the public domain. It's being held by and given to other government sources, as mentioned earlier. The contract itself is still under discussion, so it wouldn't be wise for us to share those names at this stage.

Government Operations committee  There's certainly a risk. I talked about how things have evolved on the ground in China since this started. We had to put in measures to make sure we were effectively getting our supplies as they came off the production line because of the risk of either theft or being outbid on

Government Operations committee  Certainly, different approaches are always under consideration. The one I would highlight for N95 is more around sterilization and reuse. These are such a precious commodity at the moment, is there not a way to reuse them? It happens now, but we're looking to expand the way in wh