Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I thank all the witnesses for their enlightening testimony.
My first question is for the representatives of Amnistie Internationale Canada francophone.
Ms. Langlois and Ms. Lelièvre, I want to thank you for being with us to present a much more global reflection on the pandemic. I just want to point out in passing that my colleagues Mr. Powlowski, Mr. Davies and I made a public appearance on May 7, 2021, in support of the proposal to lift patents and the proposal that had been made by South Africa.
In the first wave, we were all saying to ourselves that, in order to respond adequately to the pandemic, everyone had to be vaccinated if we were going to make sure that it ended or moved into an endemic phase. We then realized that in the field of research, there were data exchanges. It was quite beautiful to see and there was hope. All of a sudden, vaccines were found, and the beautiful solidarity turned into the stockpiling of vaccines, hoarding, and the less affluent countries were forgotten, so that we go from wave to wave, from variant to variant.
Could you tell us succinctly what the state of the global immunization situation is now, in March 2022?