Health committee  There are a couple of aspects to this. It's quite accurate in terms of the quantity that was received and deemed unusable. I'll come back to that in a moment. There is a long-term order in place with a well-known supplier, a provider of swabs. That is a key order for us in terms

Health committee  I think it's a bit of a mixed answer, Mr. Chair. PSPC is largely based in Canada. In our traditional procurement, we would be dealing with a Canadian supplier, who would be our interface with the manufacturer. As the member notes, she has a background in procurement, and in time

Health committee  Partly, yes. We have the embassy, but then we supplement that with some third party expertise, people who do have that kind of expertise. On the ground in China, we are doing a few forms of vetting. Number one is vetting the company, the manufacturing facility itself, just in g

Health committee  We are doing the testing in Canada now. When we started, we were doing it elsewhere. The testing is done in Canada. We are testing batches, so—

Health committee  Mr. Chair, the testing of the N95 masks is not being done in China right now. We are looking at ways to accelerate the testing to improve quality, but the feedback that we—

Health committee  I think that given the circumstances we're in right now, Mr. Chair, year-to-year is.... I don't want to say it's meaningless, but we are in a world where the volume is very far above what we're used to. We're dealing with companies that we've never had to deal with before, so—

Health committee  Obviously, vendors' performance and track records are very important to us, so we did reach out to the existing relationships we had and grab things off the shelves. Performance is critical. Maybe I'll stop there, Mr. Chair.

Health committee  Thank you for your question. In the case of Fluid Energy Group, the company manufactured the hand sanitizer itself.

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I am going to have to respond to this one in English. It's a little technical for me. Reagent is a chemical necessary for the traditional testing. The main source has been from one company in the past, and there's a global shortage, as the member men

Health committee  The member has touched on a very important issue in his question. Ventilators are in short supply worldwide. They're not sitting around on shelves. We are going to see ventilators start arriving in small numbers in the next couple of weeks, and this will ramp up through May.

Health committee  I'm happy to provide the committee with updates of receipts. For distribution, I would encourage you to ask the Public Health Agency of Canada, because they would be the ones who would then distribute those out to the provinces.

Government Operations committee  It's good to see everyone. In terms of the empty planes, there are a couple of things to say. There were a few empty planes that left the airports and only one of them was a Government of Canada plane. As mentioned earlier, the Shanghai airports, and all airports in China in fa

Government Operations committee  It's a little more complicated than that in that the airport is extraordinarily busy. We do actually have a warehouse that we're making use of at the airport, and that's where we store our products. Basically it's a constant lining up of goods to make sure they clear customs in o

Government Operations committee  Just to be clear, Mr. Chair, one plane from the Government of Canada was left empty, but it was not the only one. This is not a unique issue for the Government of Canada, and I want to clarify that for the member. No matter who you're dealing with, nobody wants to send an empty p

Government Operations committee  That's Canadian dollars.