Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chair, I would first like to welcome MP Perkins. I think that was the first time we heard the evidence presented on this matter very clearly. I would like to thank you for the number of times you made a reference to the investment that was made, the results that it yielded and the money that was paid, which we don't understand why.
You talked about the patent ownership, protection for the taxpayer and walk-away clauses. We have PSPC reviewing these documents. We must have considered this with other vaccines. I'd like to know whether we entered into the same contract for other vaccine producers. You talked about the Philip Morris ownership and how potentially $173 million or $200 million got decreased to $14 million. I'd love to know that. You also discussed cancellation clauses. That was great.
That crystalized what I was trying to point out in our last meeting: that there is a preamble that, I think, if used, will diminish all the points you highlighted and that I have carefully noted here.
I'd like to move the motion that we delete “That given recent media reports that the Public Health Agency of Canada lost over $300 million dollars on an unfulfilled contract, the committee undertake a study of the Public Health Agency of Canada [losing] over $300 million in taxpayers' money for an unfulfilled contract” and replace it with “That the committee study the vaccine advance purchase agreement with Medicago, that the committee hold up to fours hours of meetings on the government's advance purchase agreement with Medicago and invite the Minister of Health” and then carry on with the rest of all these subamendments that we've done. I believe the preamble is not representing the evidence that was discussed. I don't want to talk about facts because we don't have facts, but the evidence that's before us—and you clearly pointed all of it out—is not fairly represented in the preamble.
I move that the preamble be removed and be replaced with “That the committee study the vaccine advance purchase agreement with Medicago,” and the rest is as it was amended.
Thank you.