Well, first of all, it's clear that Canada has spent enormous sums of money developing expertise in infectious disease and vaccines since, really, the inception a very long time ago of Connaught Laboratories, and Canada has been a world leader in this. To say without a lot of detailed explanation that no one in Canada is capable of doing such a thing really is self-depreciating in Canada. I think it's really an unfortunate outcome for the government to say that none of the people it has supported are capable of doing this task, which I think clearly is otherwise. Whether it's directly in vaccines or in large-scale production--I mean, Canada has had some of the best researchers in scale-up and production of biopharmaceuticals at Waterloo, Western, and McGill--it's an extremely unfortunate outcome for this whole event.
On April 13th, 2010. See this statement in context.