Mr. Speaker, I get the feeling that we have come to plan D, which is about to fail.
At committee this morning, the COVID-19 vaccine task force confirmed that it did not recommend that the government participate in the CanSino vaccine project with China. The panel demonstrated that it did not have the scientific basis to recommend the project. The government decided to go ahead anyway, despite the experts' advice. It defied their recommendation and put all its eggs into the CanSino basket. As a result, time has been wasted and Canada has not been able to develop a new domestic vaccine production strategy.
Why did the government not listen to the experts? Who made that decision?