Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all of our witnesses for being with us today and for [Technical difficulty--Editor] Canadians get vaccinated as quickly and as safely as possible. We appreciate all the work that you've done, and we appreciate your being here today.
My questions are more about what we've been hearing.
I feel personally very confident in what the government has been saying, which is that we'll get Canadians vaccinated by September and that we'll do so safely and efficiently. I have full confidence in our ministers who are involved in this and in the vaccine task force.
However, as we've heard many times on the news, and from the opposition on several occasions, they believe that the timeline won't be met. This instills fear in Canadians. They fear for their own safety and that of their loved ones. They fear for the businesses that remain closed and their livelihoods.
I'd like to hear from you—the people I believe have some kind of authority in telling Canadians the truth about this matter—when you believe Canadians will be vaccinated. Can you also give us an explanation as to why you believe that the government took the right decisions in going ahead in the way they did with regard to vaccines?