Madam Speaker, I thank my esteemed colleague for his question. I enjoy working with him on the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.
I touched on this briefly during my speech, but at the beginning of the pandemic, scientists all over the world were saying that we needed to work together and that research should, ideally, be open source, which means that everyone would contribute. We need to prevent this research from being commercialized.
There is a company in my riding that takes an innovative approach to manufacturing vaccines. Once the vaccines are produced, could the company share them? It could share the part it worked on, without disclosing everything, and invite others to do their own testing and contribute to the research. This is one possible way to go.
I understand that there is a whole commercial aspect to this. Everyone wants to make a profit at others' expense. Is this really the time to be going for profit, especially when it is the government investing?