Health committee  Mr. Chair, I'm happy to provide some comments. From past experience as commander of the joint task force Laser, the response for the pandemic last spring, I can say that the Canadian Armed Forces are prepared to support, at the request of provinces and territories, in a range of

Health committee  Mr. Chair, I wouldn't be able to respond in great detail about what the CAF is doing in terms of technical support, but I can tell you that we have an omnibus RFA—request for assistance—and the current tasks fit the profile.

Health committee  Mr. Chair, no, we don't.

Health committee  Mr. Chair, we don't at this time have exact quantities and delivery schedules for AstraZeneca for the month of May.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Provinces indicate that they require more supply to scale up. Clearly, there are jurisdictions that don't book appointments until they have certainty on shipments, so that avoids their having to cancel appointments when they see a delay in shipments. Others

Health committee  We are still crunching numbers with the new announcement by Pfizer. With that increase we'll have to come back to Ontario and issue those numbers, and across Canadian provinces.

Health committee  Again, Mr. Chair, I'll have to do the number crunching with colleagues here before I can answer this question in detail, but the projections are that those numbers will increase for all provinces, including Ontario.

Health committee  We'll take that on notice, Mr. Chair.

Health committee  Mr. Chair, I stand by my previous comment. Provinces have been indicating that they have the resources, that they have the capacity, that they have on-tap capacity to increase the throughput. It's not equal across the board. It's not necessarily a mobile workforce that can get to

Health committee  Mr. Chair, there will be 650,000.

Health committee  Between now and the end of April, there will be two million.

Health committee  Mr. Chair, I do not know at this time.

Health committee  Mr. Chair, from May onwards, we expect approximately two million a week.

Health committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, there will be two million a week, every week.

Health committee  It depends. A number of efforts are ongoing to increase and scale up the health workforce. All provinces have different modalities of delivery, and they continue to investigate that. We're providing projections so that they can align all the resources necessary, and they have ass