Industry committee  Thanks, Madam Chair. I can only speak to it from a contractual perspective. We have enough vaccines under contract for the two approved vaccines to get all Canadians vaccinated. We have delivery schedules that will get us there by the end of September. As more vaccines get appr

Industry committee  Yes, I have, Madam Chair.

Industry committee  The contracts themselves are confidential. That was across the board. This is an industry where they're very sensitive about protecting their IP, etc. You actually have to sign an NDA to even enter into negotiations with these companies. It is a very sensitive piece. I think I

Industry committee  All I can say, Madam Chair, is that I take the obligations under the contract very seriously. Any potential breach of contract would not only potentially limit the ability to get vaccines, but would also compromise future negotiations, if we're viewed as a department that doesn't

Industry committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. We have ongoing discussions with the suppliers about schedules. They start in earnest as regulatory approval gets closer. The notional quarterly allocations were set out in the summer, long before production was up and running. We do have discussions wit

Industry committee  It's a ramp-up by quarter. I think we know what the allocation is for next week. It's still early days in terms of Pfizer and Moderna, but there is a fairly steep ramp-up. It's not a straight line. The math that was done was simply dividing the number of weeks left by the number

Industry committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. I think to maybe further elaborate on the comments Minister Anand made, it is a contract between two parties, and the differences you will have to keep in mind with other countries are that where there is manufacturing occurring in other

Industry committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a couple of comments. When the contracts were put in place with the seven different manufacturers, again, this was during last summer, at a time when nobody was certain which vaccines would actually make it across the line. We have two that have ma

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Government Operations committee  I think that question is probably best suited for Shared Services Canada and maybe some others. In terms of our role at PSPC, when there is a desire to upgrade or refresh or replace a system, obviously we would be involved in the procurement. If there is a competitive process, wh

Government Operations committee  I'll lean on my chief financial officer in a moment, but as we said earlier, it's not fair to do a straight comparison between the two. Last year's main estimates had a special budget implementation vote that went along with it, so the difference isn't quite that stark. Wojciech

Government Operations committee  Maybe I'll start. It's a couple of puts and takes. The most obvious ones to mention would be the federal labs initiative as an increase, which we talked about already from the federal laboratories. On Terrasses de la Chaudière, there was some work there, and on the West Memoria

Government Operations committee  Wojciech, you should take that as the CFO—

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, the easy answer to that one is that, as we think about the future of our office space and how we might work, given that large parts of this department and other departments are working quite effectively with telework, there's an open question about how we reorganize ou

Government Operations committee  The real property portfolio, or the planning for it, is under way now. Obviously, our COVID experience requires an update to that, because people are certainly thinking differently. The other part of the question is around technology and how effectively we are able to equip our w