I would like to know whether or not the Government of Canada was aware, before it issued $173 million of taxpayers' dollars to Medicago, that the WHO had a rule that it wouldn't deal with tobacco companies. If you could respond to that question in writing, I would really appreciate it.
The article goes on to say that given this rejection of the Covifenz vaccine by the WHO, these vaccines will be excluded from contribution to COVAX. Will that hamper the Canadian government's ability to meet its obligations to supply the 200 million doses equivalents or actual doses to COVAX? Was it relying on the vaccines from Medicago to meet that goal?