I think you can put it better this way. If you went out and bought an insurance policy and then didn't need the insurance policy, you don't go back to the insurance company and ask for your premiums back.
The reality is that you make a bet because you're trying to protect yourself, and that's what Canada did. We bet on seven different options and that bet—of course, without knowing which one would materialize—ensured we had the vaccines that Canadians needed.
By putting an investment in each and every one, we were guaranteeing that Canada would have the vaccines that it needed. If we bet on one or two—as it seems the Conservatives are suggesting we should have done—then it would have been highly likely that we would have missed the one that was successful, which would have seen the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives in this country.