Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the member for his question. I will be brief. I would like to add that Deloitte was responsible for developing the platform. The products and specifications were managed by a team at the Public Health Agency of Canada, using all the internal expertise available.

Public Accounts committee  I thank the member for his question. Indeed, the platform is evolving. The choices made to develop its functionality at the beginning of the pandemic were based on the need to deliver vaccines as quickly as possible, from coast to coast, and that’s what we did. One of the big reasons we didn’t have the expiration dates is that the provinces and territories were busy delivering vaccines.

Public Accounts committee  I thank the member for his question. Again, information technology can be useful. Automating the process of data sharing leads to faster data management. We also were in a situation where vaccines had to be delivered, in a context where they had been developed with new technology.

Public Accounts committee  I thank the member for his question. In the end, Deloitte provided the platform. We were in the context of a worldwide pandemic, and resources were extremely scarce. I’m talking about IT experts who manage functionalities and provide platforms. Our teams worked 24/7 for 16 hours and even 18 hours a day to set up a platform in time for Canadians to get vaccines.