Yes, I will add that actually I did appreciate everything that Dr. Lewis said. I think he's spot on.
What you can see after just a few minutes in this discussion is that there is a disconnect between, for example, what was stated by NRC, that everything is done and that the best six vaccines are advancing, and the reality that the vaccines are not being made available to Canadians.
Just to add to this, we are the first and only team as of now that has brought the vaccine from the lab all the way to licensure. Of course, Merck did help, of course Merck did a lot of projects, but this vaccine was born here in Canada. We have the experience in how to do this. We have prepared for this. We had a Zika vaccine in six months in the clinic, using a DNA platform. This was published. This was public.
Before that we did others, and we got to COVID and we had a vaccine against COVID, which is the same platform that we knew worked against SARS. In early 2001, I was at NML. It was ready in mid-February 2020, and we couldn't find funding.
It was my fault also because I did participate in the task force, and that was excluding me from the only real funding track that could have brought this vaccine to the clinic. I did it knowing that it would hamper my team, and it would be an end to that, but I was really hoping that, above all, these people would find a solution that—