Industry committee  As you say, manufacturing is happening in Canada. There are some specialist components in the system. We selected this system as something where many of the parts could be made in Canada with technology that's available. I would say that key parts we're sourcing are sensors and some of the pneumatic components, where specialist industries exist elsewhere in the world.

Industry committee  The manufacturing of the systems and the subsystems is all happening in Canada.

Industry committee  Separate from this program that we're discussing today...?

Industry committee  That's a good question. We have our own manufacturing capability that we offer people to get them up and running. Then typically we will work with our partners' preferred manufacturer. By and large, I would say that those are all in North America, but are they in the U.S. or Canada?

Industry committee  In this case, of course, we did see that there was a brief period when getting systems or components across the border was difficult, though that eased fairly quickly. It would take me a little more reflection to give you a good answer to that question, I think.

Industry committee  As you are running out of time, my answer will be very short. I don't anticipate that we could have reacted differently. March 19 was also when we first engaged with the Winnipeg ventilator. We'd had some preliminary conversations shortly before that. For ourselves, as an organization that is focused on technology, looking ahead to what technologies might be required, and when, is kind of outside of our agreement.

Industry committee  My personal opinion is that it seems like if I sit here and look at the challenges facing us, this approach of talking to the highest level of companies to get immediate alignment is applicable only, I think, in the most dire challenges, but for me, climate change fits into that category as well.

Industry committee  Absolutely, I'd be happy to speak to that. Developing a novel medical device from an early idea is something that StarFish is very used to doing, so in terms of a technical path, we were pretty well equipped with our standard existing partners and our own capability to do that.

Industry committee  Hi. I'm glad to be here. I'm John Walmsley, executive vice-president of strategic relationships at StarFish, and I have been leading our ventilator mission. In March, we were asked by the NGen supercluster to evaluate two potential ventilator technologies that could be manufactured by a collaboration of their industrial partners.