Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses for being here today.
I guess I will start with the Auditor General.
In October 2021, Bob McKeown from the CBC's The Fifth Estate ran an investigative report about CanSino. I would like to read a couple of quotes from a couple of articles.
The subheading of one article reads, “Federal officials wasted months, spent millions on a lab that never produced a single shot”.
Another article reads, “The National Research Council of Canada...signed an agreement with Tianjin-based CanSino Biologics in early May 2020 to 'fast-track the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada for emergency pandemic use.'”
Ms. Hogan, are you familiar with the CBC's The Fifth Estate and this investigative report?