Mr. Mark Lievonen at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 18th, 2021. See this statement in context.

February 18th, 2021 / 11:20 a.m.

Co-Chair, COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force

Yes, there were various Canadian proposals at various stages of development.

Just to reiterate one of Joanne's points, all of these were done in parallel. It wasn't a case of looking at CanSino and then waiting to look at others. We looked at the international candidates and the domestic candidates at the same time and we reviewed all of them carefully in view of whatever stage of development they were at.

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