I just want to thank Minister Anand and her team for working so closely with Health Canada. In fact, we have worked extremely closely over the last several months, in particular around the time of the approval of Pfizer and Moderna. We had regular and ongoing communications both on the political side and through our departments to make sure that the approvals were indeed aligned with the procurement plans and schedule.
I want to also thank Health Canada for the incredible speed with which the regulators worked. This was done by additional resources invested in Health Canada regulatory teams, but also through the dedication of these teams. They worked literally 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to review the ongoing submission of data from both companies. Canada was indeed one of the first countries to approve both vaccines. We were very lucky to get early doses, which allowed for the provinces and territories to quite frankly get used to working with these unconventional vaccines that required, as we all know now, different ways to be stored and transported. The work that was done through Major-General Dany Fortin, with the provinces, will stand us well in terms of the future shipments that are coming.