Thanks, Madam Chair, and thanks to both our witnesses for being here today.
Major-General Fortin, I was just online a few minutes ago reading a report. I want to read a little bit of it. It says “the European Commission on Friday”—that's today—“unveiled a mechanism authorizing member states to block exports of coronavirus vaccines from companies that have not met the delivery targets laid out in their advanced purchasing agreements.”
The report goes on to say that this is alarming news for Canada and the U.K.
It appears that our shortage of vaccines is going to continue for some time. This must be very frustrating to you, having set up this great group of people to distribute the vaccines all across Canada and set up the logistics and now having no vaccines to distribute.