Thank you, Chair.
You know, patience is a virtue. Perhaps my colleague in the NDP-Liberal costly coalition is anxious to get his vote-buying bill passed.
That being said, I think it's important for Canadians to understand that the frivolous spending nature of this government is germane to what we're talking about today, in the sense that we know.... Perhaps this is why the member doesn't want me to talk about it. Almost $500 million—half a billion dollars—was wasted with the collapse of the Medicago manufacturing facility. What happened? Well, we know the money disappeared. We also know there are some difficulties with respect to intellectual property related to the plant-based vaccine, which was deemed to be irrelevant by the World Health Organization.
Chair, continuing in that same vein, what did we see this morning? It's another new study related to another $130 million wasted by this government on another vaccine factory called Novavax, which has, once again, not produced any vaccines. Two phase III clinical trials have failed for respiratory syncytial virus. Now, that doesn't mean that none of this work is important. What it does mean is that there's a frivolous spending nature associated with this NDP-Liberal costly coalition, and a lack of transparency on behalf of Canadians.
Let's allow them to begin to understand where the billions of dollars are being spent—