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Anita Anand, Press conference at the Pentagon, Apr 28, 2022
Press conference at the Pentagon, Apr 28, 2022
Anita Anand
Foreign Affairs. PSPC 2019 to 2021
Her department gave her spouse's employer's lab a contract, LifeLabs, up to $111.0M. She stepped out of the file six days later.
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François-Philippe Champagne, US-Canada Summit, Toronto, Apr 4, 2023
US-Canada Summit, Toronto, Apr 4, 2023
François-Philippe Champagne
Finance. Innovation 2021 to 2025
An agency he answered for signed agreements worth a reported $327,796 with Bionest, the firm his father chairs. A Bank of China mortgage while at Foreign Affairs.
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Story · 2026-10-15

Anand's department gave her spouse's employer's lab a contract.

She stepped out of the file six days after the award.

In June 2021 Anita Anand's procurement department gave LifeLabs, which said that year it was owned by OMERS Infrastructure, a border-testing contract with a ceiling of up to $111.0M. Six days later she recused herself. Her spouse works at OMERS Infrastructure Management. On the public registry, LifeLabs first appears on her conflict screen on 12 May 2022. The year before, her department signed for ventilators from a firm with a former Liberal MP's company as its subcontractor, and she told MPs she "couldn't pick him out of a crowd".

Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs; earlier Public Services and Procurement (2019 to 2021), National Defence (2021 to 2023), Treasury Board (2023 to 2024), Transport (2024 to 2025), Innovation (2025) · Frank Baylis, Former Liberal MP (2015 to 2019) whose company, Baylis Medical, was subcontractor on the FTI ventilator contract · François-Philippe Champagne, Cabinet colleague who handed off the review of Baylis Medical's sale as 'an acquaintance of mine as a former caucus colleague'

Anand's department gave her spouse's employer's lab a contract.
A LifeLabs laboratory's sign on Woodbine Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Dec 20, 2019. Photo: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Scalable Grid Engine, CC0.

On 23 June 2021, Anita Anand's department gave LifeLabs a contract to test travellers at the border. LifeLabs said in 2021 that it was owned by OMERS Infrastructure. Her screens give her spouse's post as "Senior Managing Director and Business Manager of OMERS Infrastructure Management". Six days later she stepped out of border-testing decisions, "as there could be implications for OMERS Infrastructure".

The contract's approved ceiling was up to $111.0M, up to $3 for every person in Canada, and the Canadian Press noted it might not all be spent. The tests may well have been needed. Our question is why the wall between a minister and her spouse's employer went up after the award, when six weeks earlier she had stepped out of a ferry file for the Confederation Bridge, an entity on her OMERS screen.

Public registry: Anita Anand, Public Declaration of Recusal
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerHer recusal from the border-testing decisions, 6 days after the award.What it shows: A public registry recusal card. The marked line says she recused herself from the COVID testing strategy at the Canadian border because there could be implications for OMERS Infrastructure.Public registry: Anita Anand, Public Declaration of Recusal, her recusal card disclosed 10 August 2021, covering 29 June and 14 July 2021. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.

On the registry search, LifeLabs first appears on her conflict screen on 12 May 2022. Since procurement she has held 5 more cabinet posts, the latest Foreign Affairs, and her 2025 disclosure lists her spouse's income from an OMERS long-term incentive plan.

Our read

Our read. No Ethics Commissioner investigation report, as of 15 October 2026, has found Anita Anand in breach of anything, and no document shows the LifeLabs award reached her desk. Her screens and recusals are her own public filings. Those facts come first.

The record still points one way. Her spouse is employed by OMERS Infrastructure Management, and her screens list entities tied to it that "may have future dealings with the Government of Canada". The public's only view is that list. At procurement, Defence and the Treasury Board, it reached the public registry months after she took the desk. The one on the registry when her department awarded LifeLabs its contract did not name LifeLabs, and her recusal came six days after the award.

Our judgement: a minister whose spouse's pay includes an OMERS incentive plan should not sit over files that touch OMERS at all. A system that seats her beside them, and counts it as ethics when she leaves the room, is not protecting you.

LifeLabs' ceiling against all three border-testing firmsUp to $3 a person for LifeLabs alone.
  1. LifeLabs, approved ceiling$111,000,000
  2. All three firms$631,000,000

On the ventilators, her answer to Parliament was that she would not know Frank Baylis in a crowd. That misses the point. Our read: in this system, the minister never needs to know who gets the money.

What it cost you:

LifeLabs' border testing: up to $3 from every person in Canada, a ceiling and not money paid. The three firms together: up to $15 per person.

Each figure is the approved ceiling divided by Canada's population on 1 July 2026.

After procurement: Defence. Then Treasury Board, Transport, Innovation and Foreign Affairs. That is 5 more cabinet posts after the desk where the award came before the recusal. Ethics Commissioner investigation reports on her, as of 15 October 2026: none.

Today she runs Global Affairs Canada. Is this who you want speaking for Canada?

A wall that goes up after the award isn't a wall. It's a receipt.

The award came first. The wall went up after.
  1. Becomes procurement ministerConflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her screen disclosed 13 March 2020; her dates of office from her House of Commons roles page (https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/anita-anand(96081)/roles) ↗
  2. Her first OMERS screen: six names, and LifeLabs is not oneConflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her conflict of interest screen disclosed 13 March 2020; registry page 2 at https://www.ethicscanada.ca/en/public-registry/Cards?q=Anita+Anand&p=2 ↗
  3. Her department signs the FTI ventilator contractHouse of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, the opening statement of FTI's president, Rick Jamieson; the award date and the panel from PSPC Question Period note PSPC-2020-QP-00032 (https://search.open.canada.ca/qpnotes/record/pwgsc-tpsgc%2CPSPC-2020-QP-00032) ↗
  4. She steps out of the Prince Edward Island ferry decisionsConflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her recusal of 11 May 2021, disclosed 12 July 2021 ↗
  5. LifeLabs gets the border-testing contractPublic Services and Procurement Canada, the border-testing entry ↗
  6. She recuses herself from border testingConflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her recusal card disclosed 10 August 2021, covering 29 June and 14 July 2021 ↗
  7. That recusal reaches the public registryConflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her recusal card disclosed 10 August 2021, covering 29 June and 14 July 2021 ↗
  8. Moves to DefenceConflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her Defence screen disclosed 12 May 2022; dates of office from https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/anita-anand(96081)/roles ↗
  9. Her Defence screen, naming LifeLabs, reaches the registryConflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her Defence screen disclosed 12 May 2022; dates of office from https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/anita-anand(96081)/roles ↗

The story

Anita Anand became the minister for federal procurement on 20 November 2019. Her spouse works at OMERS Infrastructure Management, as a senior managing director. In March 2020 her first conflict screen reached the public registry. It listed six entities tied to her spouse's employer "that may have future dealings with the Government of Canada". LifeLabs was not one of them.

Then came the pandemic, and the buying. On Easter weekend 2020 her department signed FTI Professional Grade to deliver 10,000 ventilators, a proposal her department says a panel of technical experts recommended. On 16 April FTI signed Baylis Medical as its subcontractor. Frank Baylis was, in a cabinet colleague's words, "a former caucus colleague from 2015 to 2019". FTI's president told MPs he did not know him. Anand told MPs in November 2020: "I couldn't pick him out of a crowd." The makers, she said, were chosen through an industry department process with independent experts. In December FTI reported 7,788 delivered of 10,000, and expected to finish by the end of the month. Her department counted 15 contracts with 13 makers, for 40,547 ventilators ordered.

In May 2021 she stepped out of ferry decisions for Prince Edward Island, because there could be implications for the Confederation Bridge, an entity on her OMERS screen. She knew how a recusal worked.

Public registry: Anita Anand, conflict of interest screen
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerHer first OMERS screen names six entities. LifeLabs is not one of them.What it shows: Her conflict of interest screen on the public registry. The marked list names six entities: OMERS Infrastructure, Bruce Power, CannAmm, Ciel Satellite Group, Confederation Bridge and Detroit River Tunnel Partnership. LifeLabs is not among them.Public registry: Anita Anand, conflict of interest screen, her first screen, disclosed 13 March 2020: the entities it names. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.

LifeLabs said in 2021 that it was 100.0% Canadian owned by OMERS Infrastructure. On 23 June 2021 her department awarded it a border-testing contract for Vancouver's airport and land crossings in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Yukon. On 29 June, six days later, she recused herself from the border-testing strategy "as there could be implications for OMERS Infrastructure". She did it again on 14 July. By December the Canadian Press put the approved value of LifeLabs' contract at up to $111.0M, a ceiling that might not all be spent, out of up to $631.0M for three firms.

Our read of the pattern: the award came first, and the wall went up after.

In October 2021 she moved to Defence. Her Defence screen reached the registry in May 2022, administered by her chief of staff and her deputy minister. It is the first of her screens naming LifeLabs that the registry search returns, as read on 15 October 2026.

In July 2023 she moved to the Treasury Board. That screen reached the registry in November 2023. In September 2024 she took Transport as well. Porter Airlines, an affiliate of OMERS Private Equity, got its own screen on 6 March 2025. She left Transport a week later. Until then her Transport desk ran on the 2023 list already public, which did not name Porter.

Then Innovation, from March 2025, and Foreign Affairs, from May 2025. In October 2025 her disclosure listed her spouse's income from OMERS for the coming year, including a long-term incentive plan.

Days from taking each desk to its screen on the registryA registry date is when a screen was published, not when it was made.
  1. Procurement114
  2. Defence198
  3. Treasury Board117

At procurement, Defence and the Treasury Board, the screen reached the public registry months after she took the desk. A registry date is when a screen was published, not when it was made, and no record shows the LifeLabs award reached her. But the public has nothing else to go on, and the record it has shows the award first and the recusal after.

Our read: a cabinet colleague showed another way. François-Philippe Champagne, in 2022, handed off the review of Baylis Medical's sale because Baylis was a former caucus colleague.

Their side

Every screen and recusal is her own public filing. She applied the screen to border testing herself, citing OMERS Infrastructure. Her Defence screen was run by her chief of staff and deputy minister so that she was "neither made aware of nor a participant" in matters touching OMERS. No document shows the 23 June award reached her desk, and a registry date is when a screen was published, which may be later than when it took effect. On the ventilators, she said the makers were chosen through an industry department process with independent experts, and her department's note says FTI's proposal was recommended by a technical panel. FTI's president said he did not know Baylis. The Liberal members' dissent to the ethics committee's report says there was no evidence that Baylis Medical breached the Lobbying Act, and that the Ethics Commissioner told the committee Baylis, as a former MP, is no longer subject to the Conflict of Interest Code. The Auditor General found her department challenged the border agency for proposing and using non-competitive processes on ArriveCAN (2024 Report 1, paragraph 1.51).

François-Philippe Champagne, US-Canada Summit, Toronto, Apr 4, 2023
US-Canada Summit, Toronto, Apr 4, 2023. Photo: Eurasia Group, CC BY 2.0.

Cabinet colleague François-Philippe Champagne, who called Baylis “an acquaintance of mine as a former caucus colleague” on his own delegation.

All 5 sources

The answer

A screen covers what's on it. LifeLabs was not on the public one when her department gave LifeLabs the contract. Porter had no public screen until a week before she left Transport. That an award never reached the minister is the claim a screen exists to make true, and the public has no record of what the screen kept from her. The Ethics Commissioner's investigation reports, as of 15 October 2026, hold none on her.

Public registry: Anita Anand, Defence conflict of interest screen
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerHer Defence screen is run by her chief of staff and her deputy minister.What it shows: Her Defence conflict of interest screen on the public registry. The marked line says the screen is administered by her Chief of Staff and the Deputy Minister of National Defence, to ensure that she is neither made aware of nor a participant in any discussions or decision-making processes pertaining to the entities listed above it.Public registry: Anita Anand, Defence conflict of interest screen, her Defence screen disclosed 12 May 2022. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.

What we are chasing

  • How much was actually paid to LifeLabs on the border-testing contract? The figure on this page is the approved ceiling.Would settle it: PSPC's proactive disclosure of its contracts with LifeLabs, 2021-22, and the Public Accounts' payments to LifeLabs for 2021-22 and 2022-23.
  • Did the LifeLabs contract reach her or her office before 29 June 2021, and who approved it?Would settle it: an access request to PSPC for the screen's administration records on the border-testing files and the approval record of the 23 June 2021 award, 1 January to 31 July 2021. Not filed.
  • Was there a Porter screen before March 2025, and what did Transport decide about Porter while she ran it?Would settle it: the registry's Transport-era cards, Transport Canada decisions touching Porter (slots, airport agreements) from September 2024, and Porter's filings in the Lobbying registry.
  • What is the ventilator contract's value, and what did Industry Canada's officials write about Baylis?Would settle it: PSPC proactive disclosure for FTI, April 2020; an access request to ISED for the 2 April 2020 recommendations and the 24 October 2020 memo Blacklock's reported.
Ethics Commissioner investigation reports, results for “Anand”
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerThe Commissioner’s investigation reports, results for “Anand”: one, The Obhrai Inquiry of 15 March 2007, an inquiry into another member. None is a report on her.What it shows: The Ethics Commissioner’s investigation reports, results for Anand. The marked line reads 1 Result(s); the one result is The Obhrai Inquiry, a 2007 report on another member of the House of Commons.Ethics Commissioner investigation reports, results for “Anand”, the investigation reports list, result for “Anand”. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.

The receipts

Each fact with its document and date. Tap a figure for its source.

The lab

  1. Four months after she took over federal procurement, her first conflict screen reached the public registry, for "entities that may have future dealings with the Government of Canada" tied to her spouse's employer. It named six: OMERS Infrastructure, Bruce Power, CannAmm, Ciel Satellite Group, Confederation Bridge and Detroit River Tunnel Partnership. It did not name LifeLabs. “entities that may have future dealings with the Government of Canada”Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her conflict of interest screen disclosed 13 March 2020; registry page 2 at https://www.ethicscanada.ca/en/public-registry/Cards?q=Anita+Anand&p=2 ↗
  2. Her spouse is "Senior Managing Director and Business Manager of OMERS Infrastructure Management", her later screens say. “Senior Managing Director and Business Manager of OMERS Infrastructure Management”Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her screens from 2022 on ↗
  3. LifeLabs said in March 2021: "LifeLabs is 100.0% Canadian owned by OMERS Infrastructure". “LifeLabs is 100% Canadian owned by OMERS Infrastructure”LifeLabs (2021-03-16) ↗
COVID-19 related procurement: Committee of the Whole, 19 May 2022
Document · Public Services and Procurement CanadaThe department’s own briefing list: the LifeLabs contract was awarded on 23 June 2021.What it shows: A department briefing list on COVID-19 procurement. The marked entry says a contract was awarded to LifeLabs on June 23, 2021.COVID-19 related procurement: Committee of the Whole, 19 May 2022, the briefing list’s border-testing entry for LifeLabs, awarded 23 June 2021. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.
  1. "A contract was awarded to LifeLabs on June 23, 2021" by her department, for testing travellers at Vancouver's airport and at land crossings in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Yukon. It was amended on 30 June and ran to 31 January 2022. The next contract followed a competitive request for proposals. “A contract was awarded to LifeLabs on June 23, 2021”Public Services and Procurement Canada, the border-testing entry (2022-05-19) ↗
2 more receipts, 5 to 6
  1. The Canadian Press reported the LifeLabs contract's approved value, as of 6 December 2021, at up to $111.0M, of up to $631.0M for three firms, and noted the approved value "may not be fully spent as companies are paid for services delivered." “may not be fully spent as companies are paid for services delivered”The Canadian Press (via Supply Professional), the article (2021-12-06) ↗
  2. On 29 June 2021, six days after the award, she stepped out of all discussion of "the COVID testing strategy at the Canadian border as there could be implications for OMERS Infrastructure". She did it again on 14 July. “the COVID testing strategy at the Canadian border as there could be implications for OMERS Infrastructure”Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her recusal card disclosed 10 August 2021, covering 29 June and 14 July 2021 ↗
  1. She knew how to step out for an entity on her OMERS screen: on 11 May 2021, six weeks before the LifeLabs award, she recused herself from ferry decisions for Prince Edward Island "as there could be implications for the Confederation Bridge, which is subject to the conflict of interest screen". “as there could be implications for the Confederation Bridge, which is subject to the conflict of interest screen”Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her recusal of 11 May 2021, disclosed 12 July 2021 ↗
Public registry: Anita Anand, Public Declaration of Recusal
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerShe knew how to step out: her recusal of 11 May 2021 from the Prince Edward Island ferry decisions, because of the Confederation Bridge on her OMERS screen.What it shows: A public registry recusal card. The marked line says she recused herself from Prince Edward Island ferry decisions because there could be implications for the Confederation Bridge, which is on her conflict screen.Public registry: Anita Anand, Public Declaration of Recusal, her recusal of 11 May 2021, disclosed 12 July 2021. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.
  1. In the registry search, as read on 15 October 2026, the first of her screens to name LifeLabs is her Defence screen, disclosed 12 May 2022.Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her Defence screen disclosed 12 May 2022 ↗

The award came first. The recusal came six days later. The first screen naming LifeLabs on the registry search is dated 12 May 2022. Six weeks before the award she had stepped out of a ferry file for the Confederation Bridge, an entity on her screen. For the lab OMERS Infrastructure owned, she stepped out after.

The walls, on the record

  1. She became procurement minister on 20 November 2019. Her first OMERS screen is on the registry on 13 March 2020.Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her screen disclosed 13 March 2020; her dates of office from her House of Commons roles page (https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/anita-anand(96081)/roles) ↗
  2. She became Defence minister on 26 October 2021. Her Defence screen, naming OMERS Infrastructure Management, OMERS Administration Corporation, Alectra, Bruce Power, CannAmm, CBI Health, Confederation Bridge, DynaLife, LifeLabs and Trescal, is on the registry on 12 May 2022. It "is administered by my Chief of Staff and the Deputy Minister of National Defence to ensure that I am neither made aware of nor a participant" in discussions or decisions on those entities. “administered by my Chief of Staff and the Deputy Minister of National Defence to ensure that I am neither made aware of nor a participant”Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her Defence screen disclosed 12 May 2022; dates of office from https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/anita-anand(96081)/roles ↗
Public registry: Anita Anand, Treasury Board conflict of interest screen
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerHer Treasury Board screen is run by her chief of staff and the Secretary of the Treasury Board.What it shows: Her Treasury Board conflict of interest screen on the public registry. The marked line says the screen is administered by her Chief of Staff and the Secretary of Treasury Board.Public registry: Anita Anand, Treasury Board conflict of interest screen, her Treasury Board screen, public registry entry of 20 November 2023. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.
  1. She became Treasury Board president on 26 July 2023. That screen is on the registry on 20 November 2023, and its list was OMERS Infrastructure Management, OMERS Administration Corporation, Alectra, Bruce Power, LifeLabs, Next Bridge Infrastructure and TeraNet.Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, her Treasury Board screen disclosed 20 November 2023; dates of office from https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/anita-anand(96081)/roles ↗
3 more receipts, 12 to 14
  1. She became Transport minister on 19 September 2024. Porter Airlines, "an affiliate of OMERS Private Equity", got its own screen on the registry on 6 March 2025. She left Transport a week later, on 13 March. The 2023 list in force before it does not name Porter. “an affiliate of OMERS Private Equity”Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, the Porter screen disclosed 6 March 2025; dates of office from https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/anita-anand(96081)/roles ↗
  2. Her disclosure of 21 October 2025 lists her spouse's "Employment income from OMERS Infrastructure Management Inc." and, for the next twelve months, "Income from a long-term incentive plan with OMERS". “Income from a long-term incentive plan with OMERS”Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, the income entries (2025-10-21) ↗
  3. Her House of Commons roles page: Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry from 14 March 2025 to 13 May 2025, then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 13 May 2025.House of Commons, Offices and Roles ↗
  1. The Ethics Commissioner's investigation reports, as of 15 October 2026, hold no report on her.Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, the full list of investigation reports, results for her name ↗
Her disclosure summary on the public registry. The marked line lists income from a long-term incentive plan with OMERS.
Document · Conflict of Interest and Ethics CommissionerHer disclosure of 21 October 2025: her spouse’s pay from OMERS Infrastructure Management under “Last 12 months”, and a long-term incentive plan with OMERS under “Next 12 months”.Public registry: Anita Anand, disclosure summary, her disclosure of 21 October 2025: the income entries. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.

Four desks on the registry, one employer. At procurement, Defence and the Treasury Board, the screen reached the public registry months after she took the desk. At Transport the 2023 list, already public, ran on, and Porter's own screen was published a week before she left. A registry date is when a screen was published, not when it was made; the gap is still the public's only view. For Innovation and Foreign Affairs we have her dates of office, not yet the screens.

The ventilators

  1. On Easter weekend 2020 (10 April by her department's record, Saturday 11 April by FTI's president), FTI Professional Grade signed with her department "to deliver 10,000 ventilators". FTI signed Baylis Medical as its subcontractor on 16 April. Her department says FTI's proposal "was recommended by a review panel of technical experts". “FTI signed a contract with Public Works to deliver 10,000 ventilators”House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, the opening statement of FTI's president, Rick Jamieson; the award date and the panel from PSPC Question Period note PSPC-2020-QP-00032 (https://search.open.canada.ca/qpnotes/record/pwgsc-tpsgc%2CPSPC-2020-QP-00032) (2020-12-04) ↗
  2. Frank Baylis sat in the Liberal caucus from 2015 to 2019, by a cabinet colleague's account. Conservative MP Pierre Paul-Hus told a committee it was a "$237.0M contract". FTI's president said: "I did not know Mr. Baylis". “I did not know Mr. Baylis”House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, Mr. Paul-Hus's questions and Mr. Jamieson's answer; the caucus years from Champagne's delegation on the ethics registry (https://www.ethicscanada.ca/en/public-registry/Details?declarationId=acf08357-2885-ec11-8148-001dd8b7242d) (2020-12-04) ↗
Ventilators: what FTI was to deliver, what it had delivered, and the whole of PSPC’s orders
  1. FTI, contracted to deliver (2020)10,000
  2. FTI, delivered by 4 December 20207,788
  3. All PSPC orders, 2020 (ordered, not delivered)40,547
  1. Asked about Baylis on 16 November 2020, she said: "I have no idea who Frank Baylis is. I've never met him. I've never seen him. I couldn't pick him out of a crowd." She went on: the choice of ventilator makers "was initiated by ISED under its made-in-Canada initiative", through "an independent process of experts". “I have no idea who Frank Baylis is. I've never met him. I've never seen him. I couldn't pick him out of a crowd.”House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, Minister Anand's answers (2020-11-16) ↗
2 more receipts, 19 to 20
  1. Eight months after the Easter signing, FTI's president told MPs: "To date, FTI has delivered 7,788, and we expect to complete our contract before the end of December." The contract was for 10,000. “To date, FTI has delivered 7,788, and we expect to complete our contract before the end of December.”House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, the evidence of FTI's president (2020-12-04) ↗
  2. Her department's Question Period note: "15 contracts with 13 manufacturers to deliver 40,547 ventilators." “15 contracts with 13 manufacturers to deliver 40,547 ventilators.”Public Services and Procurement Canada, the note's count of contracts ↗
  1. A delegation on the ethics registry dated 3 February 2022 shows her cabinet colleague François-Philippe Champagne handing off the review of Baylis Medical's sale, because Baylis was "an acquaintance of mine as a former caucus colleague from 2015 to 2019". “an acquaintance of mine as a former caucus colleague from 2015 to 2019”Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, the delegation entry (2022-02-03) ↗
Question Period note PSPC-2020-QP-00032
Document · Public Services and Procurement CanadaHer department’s Question Period note gives the count of contracts, manufacturers and ventilators.What it shows: A Question Period note from her department, with a Suggested Response. The marked line says there are 15 contracts with 13 manufacturers to deliver 40,547 ventilators.Question Period note PSPC-2020-QP-00032, the note’s count of contracts. Read 2026-10-15. Open the document ↗.

Two contracts from her department in fourteen months: one to her spouse's employer's lab, one for ventilators from a firm with a former Liberal MP's company as subcontractor. Our read: in this system the minister never needs to know your face.

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