Just on that note, Doctor, you mentioned in your opening remarks some rather large numbers of the number of units that you have of N95 masks and so on. Can you provide to this committee the metrics around how you decide how much is enough? I have no idea how that would be determined. What is enough and what does that look like? Is it the provinces that give you their requests and you stockpile accordingly or vice versa? Could you provide that to the committee?
I'm just disturbed about any implication that there were employees who were deliberately negligent in their duties, and I do not believe that's the case. What I do know is that there were significant cuts to your agency as well as other departments in 2014 and 2015, and that may be part of the answer, but I know we're not here to talk about resources: You're supposed to make do with whatever you have.
I'm going to direct my other questions to the deputy auditor general regarding the public procurement. Opposition members have expressed that they do not agree with some of the actions taken to procure PPE and medical equipment quickly during the pandemic, but in your report, you mention that you feel that PSPC mobilized and adapted quickly. Can you tell us, in your opinion, what the consequences might have been if we had not taken decisive action early on to procure some of these medical devices and equipment?