Mr. Speaker, when the pandemic started, I stopped my leadership campaign. I spoke directly to three top ministers of the Crown and volunteered to work in a union cabinet to get this country moving to save our country. My experience in the military and the private sector working on the approval of health care products would have meant that we would have had the regulatory process to approve the mRNA vaccine. We were eight months behind the developed world. The member for Kingston and the Islands, which has Queen's University, an incredible medical school, should go and tour it and learn some more about the capacity of our own country.
This year marks 100 years since insulin was discovered by Banting and Best. We can be the best, but 8% is unacceptable. It is failure. The government was late on the border, late on tests, late on vaccines and opaque on any details about the pandemic. We can and must do better, so we can turn the corner and secure our future. We will give that to Canadians.