As you may know, vaccine and drug approval processes in Canada right now are private except for very extraordinary circumstances, so I can't really comment on what happened internally in the department. However, as you may know, my agency has been involved in thinking about the issues of vaccines and long-term safety.
I must say that the data do not suggest that this vaccine is any more biologically, physiologically unsafe. The questions we were raising around the HPV vaccine really were about added value and cost-effectiveness, given the low amounts of cervical cancer that are in the country and given the fact that the women who do die from cervical cancer die from lack of care, not from their disease.