Health committee  Concrete steps have certainly been taken. I'm not clairvoyant, but for our part, we've quintupled the production of the ventilators I mentioned, which are quite sophisticated. That will certainly be helpful. We've also made our intellectual property available so that groups such

Health committee  That's a good question, but it's very difficult to answer. The Department of Health may have that information, but we, as suppliers, have difficulty collecting it. We aren't the only suppliers. There are a number of others, so it would be difficult for us to give a definitive and

Health committee  First off, I have to say that I agree with you completely: the industry has an important role to play. I also think that experience has been gained, both by SMEs and by multinationals such as ours. I'm speaking on behalf of Medtronic Canada only. Since the company has a global p

Health committee  Listen, I think that having such a commission will help to find solutions. It's easy at this stage to go back and comment on the situation. It's been difficult to predict the scale of this pandemic, but I welcome the openness and the fact that we have this kind of exchange to lea

Health committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Kelloway, and thank you for mentioning this recognition we received. We do different things. First, it's all part of our mission. Medtronic Canada's mission was written 60 years ago by its founder, Earl E. Bakken, and it's all about that. It's ess

Health committee  Absolutely. You're talking about ventilators, right?

Health committee  Yes. In fact, we are in the process of increasing production fivefold. As I was saying to Mr. Longfield earlier, we're talking about highly sophisticated equipment that requires a lot of technology and a lot of parts, depending on the supply chain. Despite all the challenges that

Health committee  Perhaps we've been lucky with supply chains because, so far, we haven't had any major problems in that area.

Health committee  Absolutely.

Health committee  I'm not an expert on international politics. I just think that, thanks to what's been done so far and to our own experience with the supply chain, we've been able to increase our production capacity. Also, in order to meet the needs as quickly as possible, we've opened up our in

Health committee  I hope there will always be good planning. As I said in my introduction, I think the procurement system should be seen as a very strategic aspect of moving forward, and it should be built on policy-based principles that allow us to access solutions, not volume or technology as s

Health committee  It's very difficult to predict this cost, but we know that the recovery seems to have been going fairly well across the country for a few weeks now. Obviously, following that, some urgent cardiac surgeries have taken place. Other operations are slowly but surely starting to resum

Health committee  Can you repeat the last portion of your question, Ms. Sidhu, please? Thank you very much.

Health committee  Thank you for your question. First, we have a team called Integrated Health Solutions, whose efforts are optimizing clinical corridors and clinical care. This allows us to identify patient cohorts for health care professionals. Then, based on objective criteria, the programs in

Health committee  I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're talking about, but we currently have projects aimed at optimizing the use of personal protective equipment for certain interventions. With the personnel who must be on site for certain interventions, we're trying to coordinate the ins