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Public Services and Procurement Canada

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is a department of the Government of Canada responsible for the government's internal servicing and administration.

COVID-19

Following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, PSPC awarded nine contracts for the manufacturing and acquisition of mechanical ventilators. The value of the contracts was $870.3 million, covering a total of 32,070 ventilators. Contracted companies included:[1]

  • CAE
  • Canadian Emergency Ventilators
  • Dräger
  • FTI Professional Grade
  • General Electric
  • Hamilton Medical
  • Linamar
  • Medtronic
  • Thornhill Medical
  • VEXOS
  • ZOLL Medical

On July 9, 2024, PSPC removed dozens of webpages containing details of more than $24 billion in COVID-19-related payments to contractors.[2] The database of those records was archived and removed from public view. Spokesman Jeremy Link said that the information would be disclosed "upon request."[3]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Vanessa Audette Communications Manager[4] Delta Delta Delta, Translators without Borders
Jeremy Link Spokesman[3:1][5] Health Canada, Transport Canada

  1. Government of Canada. (2023, October 16). A-2020-00168 - Release Package. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/a-2020-00168-release-package ↩︎

  2. Terms Of Contracts Vanished. (2024, August 1). Blacklock’s Reporter. https://web.archive.org/web/20240802175319/https://www.blacklocks.ca/24b-disclosure-is-temporary/ ↩︎

  3. Hodgson, J. (2024, August 1). Federal documents detailing $24B in COVID contracts mysteriously vanish. Western Standard. https://web.archive.org/web/20240802175356/https://www.westernstandard.news/news/federal-documents-detailing-24b-in-covid-contracts-mysteriously-vanish/56542 ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. Vanessa Audette. LinkedIn. Retrieved November 14, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.11.14-184615/https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-audette-a280921/ ↩︎

  5. Jeremy Link. LinkedIn. Retrieved August 2, 2024, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-link-4b235353/ ↩︎