Okay. I'm sorry about that.
I'm also a bit of an expert on this anti-vax scenario because my youngest daughter, Rachel, has autism and intellectual disabilities, and I wrote a book previously called Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism, which often makes me public enemy number one with the anti-vaccine group.
Regarding Canada, I've publicly expressed my concern that our U.S. government could, and should, do more to help Canada vaccinate its population, especially now, given that only 3% of Canadians are fully immunized. In my public appearances on the cable news networks and podcasts, including the CBC, I've explained why there are both practical reasons and emotional reasons for this.
On the practical side, we share an enormous border. We simply cannot slow transmission by vaccinating all of Detroit, Michigan, for instance, without doing the same in Windsor, Ontario, or Buffalo, New York, on either sides of the Peace Bridge.
On the emotional side I've stated that there are not many nations who showed the United States unconditional love—and here I recount my remembrance—in the days after the 9/11 attacks when 100,000 Canadians stood on Parliament Hill in solidarity with the American people. I would point out not many nations do such things. I've therefore stated that when it comes to providing immunizations against COVID-19, there should be no daylight between the U.S. states and the Canadian provinces.
Specifically In the area of vaccines, I also believe that Canada has the potential to do more in vaccine science and production. You're a nation of some of the world's greatest research universities and medical schools; people come from all over the world to train at UBC, Toronto, McGill, Queen's, Waterloo, Western, Alberta, just to name some. Ultimately it was the Public Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory that led to the development of the successful Ebola vaccine that stabilized the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Our licence to Biological E. in India is not exclusive, and we'd be more than willing to transfer our technology to Canada so we could produce it for the world, if not for internal use. This might be part of a larger opportunity for the NML, the National Microbiology Laboratory, possibly in collaboration with one of Canada's research universities, to build a world-class centre for vaccines, science, development and production, doing so would propel Canada to the forefront of global vaccine diplomacy.
Thank you again for this opportunity, and I look forward to having a discussion and dialogue and answering any questions you might have.