Public Accounts committee  No, it's not.

Public Accounts committee  To the best of our knowledge, we're not aware of masks being thrown out when the pandemic started, but, again, we don't really have reliable information to that effect. With regard to masks or any type of other equipment going to China, we didn't really look at that for the reas

Public Accounts committee  We don't know if there's an exact number. Basically, what officials at the agency told us was that it was because of budget constraints.

Public Accounts committee  The agency came back to us and said, yes, they knew, but in looking at the data and doing our analysis, there was no way we could rely on the information that was provided to us by the agency. What we can tell you is that there was a large request for N95 masks that came before

Public Accounts committee  That was prior to the implementation or just after the implementation of bulk purchasing, so that's from February up until July and August.

Public Accounts committee  It was around 3.2 million.

Public Accounts committee  It's 4%.

Public Accounts committee  Our evidence is that the information that they were provided with could not be relied upon.

Public Accounts committee  There was tracking, but again, this is one of the areas where we found some deficiencies, so again we could not rely on that information.

Public Accounts committee  That is correct, but remember again here that the mandate of the agency is to reply to a need from the provinces that exceeds their capability. It's what we call the “surge capability”.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  We have specific numbers on the requests that were made by the provinces and territories and on what the Public Health Agency of Canada provided at that time. I can provide you with those numbers. Having said that, the percentage that Ms. Hogan provided is good. The Agency's res