Except that the report says it's “highly improbable that she did not know” about the patent. Yes, further investigation is warranted, but they're already casting aspersions on the authenticity of her answers at that point.
I'll be honest, on the chain of events, there's major overblown commentary from Conservatives. We have the CSIS director coming here and saying no, there was expeditious action, but I look at the email chains here on approval....
Look, PHAC was aware of this too. I see an email from Allan Lau on April 3 saying, “We didn't do anything wrong...just that because of the nature of the pathogens and where it was going they (the higher-ups in PHAC) wanted to know if we did our due diligence.”
It strikes me that, if full due diligence has been done, specifically in relation to Dr. Qui, that transfer does not occur at the end of March. Is that fair to say?