Through you, Mr. Chair, would subsidies be needed if we just allowed for the TRIPS waiver to happen and allow countries to be able to take control of their own production? Would we have to do that?
It seems fairly dubious that we're touting our international reputation of contributing to this storage while simultaneously taking it and then also talking about the hundreds of millions of contracts that we have upcoming on vaccines.
I'll ask again. Will you, at your cabinet table, advocate the waiver of the TRIPS, the intellectual property, to allow for countries like India and Brazil and others to produce vaccines and increase the global supply of vaccines?