Thank you, Minister.
Mr. Perron, thank you for your question on the vaccine bank.
As has been indicated, budget 2023 did provide $57.5 million over five years for the establishment of the vaccine bank. I want to reassure the committee that there are sufficient funds to establish the vaccine bank, whether we go into a cost-sharing agreement with the provinces or not.
We are in the process of finalizing a request for proposal, and it will be released imminently. It is a very complicated vaccine. It's very technical. We are in the process of issuing that RFP, and it will be, obviously, the first step to getting suppliers to submit bids to establish the vaccine bank.