Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have to agree. I thought we were operating in the spirit of co-operation and moving rather well there for a while. We have three meetings on COVID and one on the PMPRB. We know the work schedule here for the next while. I don't think it was too much at all to ask for one meeting on vaccines, and I don't want to put all the pressure on Mr. Davies either. There are Liberals on this committee who know that the vaccine is a big issue. They said so today, and I appreciate that.
Back home in Manitoba, I can tell you, where we have the highest per capita COVID cases in the country on a per 100,000 basis, vaccines are the big issue.
Now, not everybody is going to want the vaccine when it does come; don't get me wrong. For those who do, though, this is a big issue. How to spread those around, how to deal with the people who are in long-term care homes and how to deal with the workers in those homes I think is a huge issue.
People would be able to be a lot more relaxed over the Christmas holidays if we actually had a discussion about vaccines, how they are going to be distributed and where the priorities would be in these areas. A lot of these people are seniors. A lot of the people who are dying are in their eighties and nineties. Many are in their seventies, and some are much younger. We could really still help ourselves here by being accountable to people in Canada by dealing with vaccines as the number one issue, and it will help everyone's mental health—