Thank you to all the witnesses for being with us today.
Dr. Attaran, I would like to start with you. You stated last August that the National Research Council knows how to make vaccines. Its brilliant scientists were the world's first to fully deploy an adenovirus-vectored vaccine for rabies ahead of any pharmaceutical company. You have pointed out that the AstraZeneca vaccine is an adenovirus-vectored vaccine. Do you have any explanation for why Canada failed to negotiate the right to produce the AstraZeneca vaccine here in Canada? How serious an omission do you think that is?