Thank you, Madam Chair.
I’d like to welcome the witnesses joining us for the second hour of our study.
Dr. Salama, Canada is the only G7 country that has not produced its own COVID‑19 vaccines. Big pharmaceutical companies have left Quebec and Canada, shut down plants and eliminated jobs; however, they did have an interest in Canadian and Quebec markets at some point.
Does government underfunding for research and the absence of a scientific sovereignty strategy partially explain this dependency that makes us vulnerable to antimicrobial resistance?