Thank you, Madam Chairperson.
I want to go back to Dr. Butler-Jones, because the more I ask about the HIV vaccine facility, the more questions there are, based on Dr. Butler-Jones' answers.
Last May you brought in a considerable number of experts from around the world to review the four bids that were part of this proposal your government announced in 2007.
So in late May you bring in a large number of experts from around the world--it must be fairly costly to do so--to create a review panel to look at the four bids. Why would you do a due diligence study after the fact, after the whole process was in place? None of this makes sense. You have to explain to us.
You bring in a review panel. You say there's a due diligence study going on that is at the end of the process. Either the whole process was done on a incompetent basis or there's some cover-up going on. It just doesn't make sense. I think you have to explain to us why you would bring in these expert reviewers to review four bids, all the while knowing there's a due diligence study going on at the end of the process.