Pierre Paul-Hus at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 1st, 2021. See this statement in context.

February 1st, 2021 / 4:55 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Paul-Hus Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC

Thank you.

I now have some questions for you, Mr. Holman.

Last week, we learned that the CanSinoBio contract, the contract awarded by the Government of Canada for vaccine development, had ended. In June, the National Research Council of Canada told a House of Commons committee that the agreement was in place. In July, the Government of Canada said that there was still an agreement in place. In August, we were told that there was no longer an agreement. We're now learning that the Chinese ended the agreement in May.

Do you think that it's normal for the Government of Canada to hide this information?

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