Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for the representatives of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and it's related to the whole issue of foot-and-mouth disease vaccines for animals.
We know that there is a foot-and-mouth disease vaccine bank, and it currently stands at 250,000 doses. According to a number of assessments carried out by the agency, 2.5 million doses would be needed. That means that we have barely 10% of the required number of doses. An increase in this number was announced in the last budget, eight months ago. Where do we currently stand on this?
No tender calls have been launched to begin work on developing these vaccines.
Perhaps Dr. Kochhar, the agency's president, could answer my question.