Tony Baldinelli at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 25th, 2021. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2021 / 12:05 p.m.

Conservative

Tony Baldinelli Conservative Niagara Falls, ON

Thank you.

I'll go back again to how my colleague was asking the question earlier in regard to timelines.

My concern is that we lost about three months in the whole process of securing vaccines. The government announced the deal with CanSino Biologics in May. Three days after the Prime Minister made his announcement on that, China began the process of backing out of that agreement. We did not find that out publicly until July. The task force did not meet until June and then the government announced its procurement of these vaccines in August.

From your standpoint, who was involved in the decision to engage CanSino Biologics?

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