Global News had an article on August 27, 2020, with the headline, “China blamed for Canada's multimillion-dollar coronavirus vaccine deal collapse”.
I would like to read a couple of quick quotes from the article. It says, “This week Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) announced it has abandoned its partnership with Chinese company CanSino Biologics, because China’s government continues to block shipments of vaccine materials to Canada.” It then goes on to say:
The NRC—which is part of the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry—has received about $44 million since late March to upgrade its production capacity in Montreal in preparation for materials expected from CanSino.... “With the funding received from the Government of Canada on March 23 and April 23 [2020], much work is under way at NRC”.
Are you able to offer any insight as to why, in the spring of 2020, this government seemed to be so exclusively focused on CanSino, while the U.S. government was signing deals with Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and all the rest of them?