Health committee  It's a multi-part answer. The product is coming in every couple of days. A lot of it comes from China, so we have arranged for fairly regular flights to come from Shanghai into Canada as the product is ready. Now we're seeing a pretty steady flow of products coming out of our o

Health committee  The process would be as follows. There would be an inspection of the goods once they arrive in Canada at the Public Health Agency warehouse. There is actually some specific testing that happens for N95s. There is a quality check there. That process takes a couple of days. It then

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think we can talk about how the strategy in this area has changed since day one. I did mention in my opening remarks that this notion of putting in longer-term contracts with a variety of suppliers to ensure a steady stream of arrival of goods is importan

Health committee  The government's approach to securing those goods is probably a better question for our colleagues from Health Canada and PHAC. I can tell you that PSPC, as a purchaser of these kinds of drugs, has historically been a fairly small player. We do have some activity. It's one that

Health committee  The test the member referenced, which was also referenced earlier this week, is one that I referenced in my remarks about Spartan, an Ottawa-based company that has recently been awarded a contract. This is new technology. I have no comments or opinion on the volume of testing req

Health committee  Again, we're starting up here. We're hoping to hit full production in July. There's a gradual ramp-up. Again, it's new technology, so we're working with them to get that up and running. We're all anxious to get that going. The delivery details are being worked out, but we're hopi

Health committee  In terms of the last 10 years, I cannot answer that, but I'm sure we can easily undertake to get back to the committee on that. Before I say that, I should ask my colleagues if they happen to know. I suspect their answer is the same as mine. Hearing silence, we'll get back to y

Health committee  There's clearly a link with what comes in. From a procurement perspective, it gets delivered to the Public Health Agency, as the member indicated. They would then have an intake process in terms of inspecting, counting and warehousing, all of those things, and then a process to a

Health committee  We have an ongoing dialogue with PHAC on orders. We received several larger orders from the Public Health Agency of Canada, which we are calling collaborative buys with provinces and territories. I think the most recent—and Arianne can correct me here—came on April 9. It's a big

Health committee  We would place orders for the government writ large, so we have a number of departments, including PHAC, that we would have a regular dialogue with in terms of orders. I will turn to Arianne for a second to see if her memory is better than mine on pre-COVID orders, but I'd encour

Health committee  Certainly there has, and as mentioned earlier, this involves a great deal of leadership from our colleagues at ISED, the Department of Industry, in assessing a company's ability to scale up quickly, because speed is important here, and then what their ability to participate as a

Health committee  Certainly, I can. There are two basic pieces. They are very obvious, but these are important for people. There is the procurement itself, and then once the goods arrive there is the logistics solution to distribute them. The system we have in place is that the Public Health Age

Health committee  It's part of the outcome. They run their models and then they place orders. As I mentioned earlier, some of those orders are very large. The orders they place with us would be the outcome of their planning. I mentioned that the last one we received was, I believe, for 80 million

Health committee  We certainly have an ongoing discussion about supply lines and the time it takes. We're very well plugged in to our plans around domestic capacity with ISED and how long it might take for that to come online. I think it's twofold. One is the long-term orders. Then, as I mentione

Health committee  I can only speak to my experience in dealing with existing Canadian suppliers, as well as those looking to emerge into the markets. It has not been something that has been raised with me one bit, and that's both through interaction on our website in looking for supply as well as