Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here.
I think it's interesting. Here we are, three years later. I can remember the early days of the pandemic very clearly, when I was running a COVID unit back in northern Nova Scotia. All of us wondered whether or not the world was going to end, yet here we are, three years later. It doesn't seem a whole lot has changed, but many things have.
Mr. Tada, I'll start with you, if I may, sir.
I want to thank you, first of all, for being honest and agreeing to release information to this committee—if I heard you correctly. Certainly, I think the members of this committee want to be very clear in helping you and your colleagues understand that this information is not for public release. I'll reiterate that, as the chair did.
Part of the question I have.... You said you agreed to release some information. Does that make any sense? Why would you put intellectual property in an advance purchase agreement contract?