Government Operations committee  There are three components to the global information system. There's a GPHIN daily report. There are GPHIN alerts, and there's a GPHIN platform. The GPHIN program at no point was shut down, and what I would like to say is—

Government Operations committee  There was a reduction in the GPHIN alerts. They were not shut down.

Government Operations committee  I don't have that number in front of me.

Government Operations committee  What I'd like to state is—

Government Operations committee  The GPHIN detected a signal on December 30 of the COVID-19 pandemic and that signal was distributed on December 31, at which point a chain of action happened through the Public Health Agency. The GPHIN system did exactly what it needed to do and the issuance of an alert to intern

Government Operations committee  The GPHIN system did exactly as it needed to do in providing the signal that was detected of the unusual cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. We at this point are looking forward to receiving the recommendations from the Office of the Auditor General's audit as well as recommendat

Government Operations committee  Officials have been asked today to come to the committee to speak to the national emergency strategic stockpile. Certainly, I can speak to issues on the GPHIN program. As I've stated, the signal was provided on December—.

Government Operations committee  As I've said, the signal based on December 30 resulted in—

Government Operations committee  I believe, again going back to the discussions that happened at this committee in May, what we have already shared with the committee is that, in 2018, expired items such as gloves, face shields, bandages and survival biscuits were disposed of. In 2019, approximately two million

Government Operations committee  What I can say is that when a warehouse is closed the material that is of use is transferred to the other warehouses and any expired material would be disposed of—

Government Operations committee  Again, I will reiterate that any masks that were determined to be acceptable would have been transferred to another warehouse. I will say the masks from the Regina site were 10 years old and five years past their expiry date.

Government Operations committee  Certainly the information appropriate to be disclosed would have been provided in the document production. Certainly I can't speak to an individual document and the specific redactions or the rationale behind that. Thank you.

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, and I'd really like the opportunity to set the record straight. The global public health intelligence network was never shut down. The number of alerts did decrease over the past number of years. However, GPHIN continued to operate without reductions i

Government Operations committee  As I said, in the bulk procurement we've done for personal protective equipment, 20% of that amount is held back by the national emergency strategic stockpile to replenish our stocks. Within that 20%, we do allocate 2% to our colleagues in Indigenous Services Canada. Where they a

Government Operations committee  With respect to any document production, be that through access to information or other requests, including parliamentary motions, staff who are providing documents would make recommendations for redactions in line with the principles that we would see as well through the access