I'd like to thank my colleague Ms. Bradford for her question, because it gives me the opportunity to reiterate what I said when I introduced the motion.
It's a fairly simple concept. The Auditor General was supposed to audit a lot of things, but then under the legislation governing what she does, the Auditor General Act, which specifically applies to the Office of the Auditor General, she's required to censor the content of commercial agreements. So it's up to us as parliamentarians, and particularly us as members of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, to obtain that information and better understand the findings in her report.
Some findings, particularly those dealing with wasted doses, could be explained in the contracts. For example, pharmaceutical companies may have prohibited the Government of Canada from reselling vaccine doses. If such provisions were included in the contract with pharmaceutical companies, this would explain why many doses were wasted. In that case, it would be up to us as parliamentarians to find out why the pharmaceutical companies abused their position of power to get the government to agree to provisions like that.
I hope I've been clear.