Rick Perkins at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On February 13th, 2023. See this statement in context.

February 13th, 2023 / 5:10 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

I'm going to push my luck with one more question. I'll try to ask it quickly.

Last week in the public accounts committee, officials stated in regard to the Medicago case and the closing of the biotechnology company that the government's prepaid contract was to buy 20 million doses of the vaccine at $30 a dose—in other words, $600 million—and that there was actually negotiation going on as to how much the government would have to pay for those vaccines that were not produced or delivered.

Is it true that we are going to be paying some portion of that $600 million for vaccines that never got produced or delivered?

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