Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
We are talking about cabinet confidentiality and so on. I just want to take you back to a point here in this committee when the minister testified that the Liberal government's decision to partner with the Chinese was based on recommendations from the vaccine task force. Of course, that was done earlier. June 23 is when I first heard that you had said that you started your committee up. There's some confusion there.
I have heard some description of the time frame, which is great. I guess my first question is whether you were made aware that the government knew that their agreement with the Chinese was doomed to failure just a few weeks after it was signed, based on the things that we've heard throughout the media.