I understand it was an emergency contract.
In other words, you weren't aware of it. You knew it would have no ability to.... Either you didn't know and didn't do your due diligence, or you were aware there would be no ability to have any kind of international purchase beyond this country. The reason this is important is that, when you signed for—according to the president of Medicago at the public accounts committee—$773 million in vaccines that were never produced, you knew all of those doses would have to be consumed in Canada. They could not be exported.
What's the purpose of signing a contract with a company and investing $200 million of taxpayer money for those dosage numbers, in addition to everything else the Auditor General outlined, 180 million doses of various vaccines? It seems totally irresponsible for the government to do that, knowing it wasn't possible to have those exported.