Industry committee  That's right. The Public Health Agency is not involved in the production or manufacturing of vaccines.

Industry committee  I have no evidence that they're not on track for the schedule they announced, but I haven't been at the NRC since September 28. Mitch Davies would be able to speak to how they are progressing on that project.

Industry committee  Are you referring to the manufacturing facility that we were just talking about?

Industry committee  Thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. I have the honour of serving as the president of the Public Health Agency. I started on September 28, 2020. I'm pleased to be here to talk about what we're doing with respect to procuring vaccines and vaccine rollout. As the Mi

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  I don't have that information off the top of my head. We have seven procurement agreements now, and those add up. The Prime Minister and others have made those numbers available. It's a substantial number of vaccine doses. I don't have anything in front of me broken out by quart

Health committee  My understanding is based on the agreements we've negotiated and on the assumption that they are approved by the regulator—which is a big if—and if they deliver them on time, which, as my earlier statement indicated, is a big if as well. If that's the case, there will be sufficie

Health committee  Yes, that sounds correct.

Health committee  All of the vaccines that are being used for COVID are novel. They're being invented for the first time for this purpose. The manufacturers are having to not only develop the vaccines and do the clinical trials, but also scale up the manufacturing of the vaccines. They start slowl

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  There is a lot of uncertainty about when vaccines will actually be ready. We have contracts that request vaccines by March 31, but they have to be approved for use in Canada. That regulatory decision has yet to be taken.

Health committee  There are six million doses contracted to arrive by March 31, and yes, in order to use those doses, we need to have them approved by the regulator.

Health committee  I'll turn to my colleague Stephen Lucas. He's the regulator at Health Canada.

Health committee  As the minister indicated, we're in a long and deep discussion with the provinces around preparing—