Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. To clarify, are we talking about N95 respirators or ventilators?

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question. To my knowledge, none have been distributed overseas.

Government Operations committee  To my knowledge, the ventilators that we purchased have not been distributed overseas.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. I'm not sure I understand the question.

Government Operations committee  I'm unable to provide a specific number of N95 masks. What I can tell you is that in terms of what we've procured overall—

Government Operations committee  In terms of the NESS, I would say two things. Certainly the efforts that have been made to galvanize the Canadian industry and allow us to pull from domestic supply have been quite critical in our response and something that we'll be looking at in terms of how we sustain those ef

Government Operations committee  I'd like to turn to my colleague Martin Krumins to speak to the specifics of the budget for the national emergency strategic stockpile.

Government Operations committee  Emergency management in Canada and the model for the national emergency strategic stockpile are built on the assumption that provinces, territories and local governments are prepared to handle the most common emergencies, so it was designed to provide health emergency assets when

Government Operations committee  The signal from the GPHIN system resulted in the chief public health officer alerting her colleagues and providing a system of readiness on the ground to watch for incoming cases. The risk assessment and decisions taken are outside the scope of the GPHIN program. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  I'm going to turn to my colleague, Martin Krumins to initiate the answer to that question. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  The vaccine rollout and the specifics of that work are outside my purview. What I can say is that, on personal protective equipment, we continue to work closely in collaboration with the provinces and territories. Supplies that would be needed for vaccinations such as gloves, g

Government Operations committee  The Public Health Agency of Canada, with our partners at PSPC, have been procuring low dead-volume syringes as part of the Government of Canada's vaccine rollout plan. As of March 18, we have procured over 115 million of those low dead-volume syringes, and those have been activel

Government Operations committee  What I'd like to do is give some context—

Government Operations committee  The system was not shut down, if I might answer the question—

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, may I answer the question in my own words?