Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madam Jeffrey, you mentioned several times that international collaboration in research among level 4 labs in the area of human pathogens and viruses is important. My question is asked in that context.
The named research organizations list that Public Safety has developed and put out does not include the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That list, though, does state that institutions that are not on the list may still pose a risk and that different entities within the Government of Canada are to take that risk and assess it, even though institutions like the Wuhan Institute of Virology may not be on the list.
The Minister of Health, I think, previously said that there was collaboration going on between entities in the PRC and the national microbiology laboratory, and then later said that there wasn't any collaboration going on. My simple question is this: Can you confirm that there is no ongoing collaboration, either in terms of transfers of information or materials, between the lab in Winnipeg and any entities in the People's Republic of China, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology?