Mr. Tada, it was written in black and white that the WHO would not recognize the work of a company that included a tobacco company among its shareholders. That had been the case for Medicago since 2008. On March 12, 2020, when you announced your work on the vaccine, and in October 2022, when the Government of Canada gave you $173 million of taxpayer money, did anyone in the company warn the government that, because of the minority shareholder from the tobacco industry, the WHO would never recognize your work? Yes or no?
On December 11th, 2023. See this statement in context.