Government Operations committee  I have no number.

Government Operations committee  We will provide you with the information about the disposal. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Government Operations committee  I thank you for the question. Mr. Chair, we do have an inventory management system. On the items that were five years past expiry, there would have been no demand for those products or they would have been used prior. On a go-forward basis, though, I do think that this whole epi

Government Operations committee  Mr. Chair, our stockpiled amounts were basically geared toward responding to a couple of incidents within Canada. They weren't actually geared toward supplying something for every Canadian—

Government Operations committee  The government, writ large, has been very good about making sure that we have the appropriate funding to do what needs to be done. The Public Health Agency of Canada is relying on a number of different partners to do so, including the Canadian Armed Forces and other folks from wi

Government Operations committee  To begin with, I would disagree with the closing part of your argument. I actually believe that NESS was managed according to its mandate and its funding. Having said that, on a go-forward basis, there are many lessons that we have been learning that we have begun to implement.

Government Operations committee  Everything that we have done has—

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Government Operations committee  Perhaps I'll start and then go over to my colleague to talk about what has happened with Quebec, in particular. Just to be clear, those masks that expired were purchased in 2009. They expired five years afterwards, in 2014, and they were destroyed in 2019, well before we had any

Government Operations committee  In our past deployments, we have had a couple a year, not many a day. In terms of the volume, the magnitude, the dollar value, we are in a completely different world. It is exponentially greater than what we have experienced in the past.

Government Operations committee  It was not actually related to a specific budget cut, but we do look at ongoing optimization. Our goal in situating where and how many warehouses we have is driven first of all by being able to reach all the communities in Canada within 24 hours. A lot had changed since our initi

Government Operations committee  Normally we don't disclose what's in the warehouses. This is under our assets and supply, but that could be undertaken—

Government Operations committee  If I may just repeat, we do have an inventory management system in place. It deals with the purchase and the expiration, and we look to find good use for product prior to expiration. If it is well after expiration, we would not distribute anything that might impose risk or cause

Government Operations committee  In 2012 we had 11 warehouses in 9 cities. After we did the transportation study, we adjusted that so that we could still meet our objective of delivering product anywhere in Canada within 24 hours, and we consolidated 8 warehouses in 6 cities. At that point we closed three wareho

Government Operations committee  Materiel that was usable would have been transferred to our existing facilities that have been maintained, and I do not have that information.