Government Operations committee  It's the medical grade ASTM level 1 or 2 mask.

Government Operations committee  I think you're on to something. I think you should keep your focus on the N95 masks, because that's critical, but there should be a little more balance.

Government Operations committee  We don't make any masks in Canada.

Government Operations committee  That's okay. We actually put in a bid with the Ontario government to make masks in Ontario.

Government Operations committee  Yes. I haven't heard that before. We have a nice warehouse in Edmonton. We have a great warehouse in Edmonton.

Government Operations committee  We'll take advantage of our global supply chain. There are two things to this. Melt-blown material is the big cost in making masks, and we'll take advantage of our big buying power. It's a raw material needed for incontinence products, for which we have a billion-dollar business

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  I'd be surgical.... Let's get really good at something so we can potentially sell it outside of our borders as well.

Government Operations committee  Thank you.

Government Operations committee  It's actually our retail stores. Medline has a store in Mississauga and Medline has a store in Quebec.

Government Operations committee  We will stay fanatically focused on being a medical company and not try to sell masks and gowns to everybody. We will stay in our lane and be fanatically focused on keeping our employees safe and delivering PPE items to front-line health care workers. We believe we have the sol

Government Operations committee  We provide the whole range. Medline produces medical grade masks, both surgical and procedural masks, and we are an authorized distributor in Canada for 3M for the N95 mask.

Government Operations committee  No, I really don't. I have another report that says we're going to need a billion masks, so I think at this point we're trying to evaluate what the demand is now. I wouldn't be able to give you a really good educated, academic answer to that.

Government Operations committee  I'll answer as best I can. We're a distributor of N95 masks, and that has to happen. We are certainly talking to all levels of government about procedural and medical grade masks. Certainly, for isolation purposes, if you're not performing surgeries they're a really strong mask.

Government Operations committee  Positively, and I think maybe timing is everything. At that time, it was, “We need product now. That's a great idea. Let's table it, and let's come back to this, but right now we need product desperately.”