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Government Operations committee  I'd say they're evolving. At the beginning, there was panic buying from governments all over the world. They were all going to the same factories with contracts to say they'd buy their products. We were competing with each other; we were competing with other governments. It becam

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  Again, I don't want to come off like we're perfect, but I really wanted to be careful. We did not buy anything if we didn't know the factory and we didn't have quality and regulatory people doing it; we just avoided it. We did not want to collect deposits and have money go [Inaud

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  We're hoping to do two things. We are absolutely expanding our contract manufacturing and manufacturing capabilities out of the province of just Hubei. Obviously, that was the PPE capital of the world in terms of making PPE products. My personal opinion is that if ground zero had

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  We do have an N95 contract with some of the health authorities, yes.

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  It's just starting. Anita Anand hosted an industry event that I attended. We have a PPE continuity program, and you're poking at exactly where I think industry can help. It's not as easy as just setting up a warehouse. You want to go to industry that actually turns this invento

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  Whatever 3M will give us.

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  We would typically have four months' on hand, as a good rule of thumb. I couldn't tell you exactly, but four months' seems right.

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  We have an inventory management system that would manage it, with quality and regulatory alerts, and then we have—

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  It's a digital system, yes, and then you move it—

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  It's simple if you can turn it, right? What you don't want to do is just have a warehouse that.... You know, governments change and people change, and all of a sudden you have a warehouse that has cobwebs and hasn't been looked at in 10 years. We saw a bit of that going back to

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  We actually went to the federal government and said that we're not a supply chain company but we'll—

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  Thank you for letting me finish. We had a solution where—and industry can do this—we said, “Industry's unique value proposition in this category is that we have warehousing space. We have the systems and we have the contracts to turn this inventory. Instead of spending capital,

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip

Government Operations committee  There are a couple of questions in there. You're right, and that's why we use a lot of local manufacturers as well in Canada, for things like sanitizers, etc. I think you've hit on the two big issues. The last one would be raw materials. For example, with regard to something li

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Ernie Philip