Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses for their participation.
Professor Gagnon, thank you for accepting the committee's invitation.
You mentioned something that we on the Standing Committee on Health noticed as well. At the beginning of the pandemic, all the experts and researchers told us about the extraordinary level of co-operation in the effort to find and develop a vaccine. The co-operation was certainly there.
The vaccine race has been on since August. Now that it's time to procure the vaccines, all that fine global co-operation and information sharing has gone out the window, and for good. We are nevertheless in the midst of a global pandemic, so borders are problematic. Until everyone on the planet is vaccinated, the problems caused by variants are not going anywhere.
You said this earlier, and you've talked about it in your articles: this way of doing things is disastrous. You said Canada had picked its side.
What could we do differently to achieve better public health results through a more unified position?