Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Ms. Ravon, Oxfam Canada is on record as saying that “Canada should use its leadership to encourage G7 countries to stop supporting pharmaceutical corporations monopolies on COVID-19 vaccines.” Oxfam has stated that “Breaking up the monopolies of the big pharmaceutical companies is the quickest, fairest and most effective way of boosting vaccine production so that countries are not forced to compete [for scarce and limited] doses.”
There's an important vote coming up this Wednesday at the WTO. Has the Government of Canada indicated whether it will support the proposed temporary IP waiver at the upcoming WTO council on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights?