Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Certainly, having been a physician in charge of a regional COVID unit, this has very personal meaning for me with respect to now looking at lessons learned.
I take umbrage at the AG report in terms of its saying that a billion dollars' worth of wasted vaccines is acceptable, expected, reasonable or perhaps successful—that's the word that was used. On behalf of Canadians, I think that's a bit appalling.
That is, of course, directly related to VaccineConnect, with a total cost of $59.1 million, of which $37.4 million was paid. We know that this was a failing system. That people were using spreadsheets in this day and age is absolutely shocking.
As a simple question, did we pay the remaining $21.7 million, and why did we?