Thank you very much, Chair.
Minister, welcome. Thank you very much.
I will start with the director of CSIS for my opening question.
I'll build on Mr. Cooper's line of questioning around the chronology of events that took place from the moment a patent was discovered. I believe this started around October 2018, and the two Canadian scientists were fired sometime in the middle of 2019.
Mr. Vigneault, looking at the chronology, your testimony when we last met was, “my expert colleagues have told me that...it was a fairly expeditious process.” Are you still of the opinion that the process followed during the investigation, the CSIS briefing and the steps that PHAC and the lab took were expeditious given the circumstances?