Mr. Speaker, Health Canada granted permission to use an anthrax vaccine on Canadian troops. The vaccine was produced by a United States lab that was cited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As a matter of fact, it was shut down for quality control violations.
Yesterday the defence minister said the vaccine had been retested and was in fact safe.
Could the government explain today why the defence minister neglected to tell Canadians that the retest was done by the same company that produced the vaccine?