The intention behind COVAX, in order to bring countries together to form this multilateral pooled procurement mechanism, was to ask countries to supply certain funding for their own procurements and then to also ask them to provide funding for the developing world.
Canada stepped up and provided $220 million for the pool procurement mechanism, from which it could draw as one of those contributing countries to bring doses to Canada. We also stepped up to provide $220 million for doses for the developing world.
The way in which this procurement approach functions is to allow developed countries to procure doses to use domestically and also to ask them to provide funding for the donation of doses to the developing world.
Canada is one of the largest contributors to the COVAX facility, because of our commitment to the developing world. Indeed, our Minister of International Development is taking a leading position in that alliance, because of our belief that until everyone is safe, no one is safe.