Health committee  The first thing we need to do, really, is to eliminate the tariff exemption that was put in place in the early days of COVID. Some $19 billion worth of product, including PPE, has been purchased under that tariff exemption. That amounts to about a $3-billion subsidy for foreign g

Health committee  They are rated by each manufacturer. Usually it's a minimum of two years and typically up to five years.

Health committee  I don't believe that just putting respirators [Technical Difficulty—Editor] suggested a first in-first out rotating inventory system, a vendor-managed system, similar to what is done in pharmaceutical industries, for example. For example, if Canadian manufacturers were supplying

Health committee  Initially the government, in March 2020, made a plea to Canadian industry to stand up a new PPE industry and made a promise to the Canadian public that they would be partnering with Canadian industry to deliver solutions for COVID. I have a quote here: “With a view to longer-term

Health committee  We received a letter from the House Speaker to confirm that they would comply by January 31, and I believe that has happened. We received a letter from the Minister of Procurement, or a designate of the minister, to suggest that they would be following the rules for federal depar

Health committee  We currently supply N95s to health care, and to various federal, provincial and territorial governments through central procurement. If we have a particularly lethal variant that comes out and we want to protect our entire populace—38 million Canadians—that's an almost hundredf

Health committee  Thank you, Chair and the committee, for the invitation to speak here today. The Canadian Association of PPE Manufacturers, CAPPEM, is made up of 30 Canadian controlled private corporations, SMEs, who answered the government's call to produce PPE here in Canada. At the start o