Mr. Speaker, the Canadian government, under Conservative leadership, is the single largest investor in research across Canada. It invests about $1 billion each and every year, for critical things like cancer research, Alzheimer's research, and emerging health for women and children.
When it comes to this vaccine, I think we are all very proud of the leading role that Canadians have taken in fighting Ebola. What members of the House and Canadians need to recall is that prior to this outbreak, there were fewer than 2,000 cases of Ebola. While we have carried out groundbreaking research in developing the crux of these vaccines, it is not for the Public Health Agency of Canada to commercialize them and run them through trials. This has always been done with the assistance of private sector companies, which then invest millions of dollars to take these medicines and vaccines to trial. That is exactly what is taking place here.