Mr. Speaker, I invite the Deputy Prime Minister to listen to what was said at the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology this morning. She would realize that that may not be the reality. Mr. Scott-Douglas, secretary of the task force, stated that the science suggested not backing CanSino. It is hard to understand the government. It refused, supposedly on the advice of experts, to give a mere $2 million to test the vaccine developed by Dr. Kobinger of Université Laval. However, it sunk $56 million into a Chinese project against the recommendation of the vaccine task force. This proves that these were political decisions and that the government only listens to the science when it is in its interest to do so.
Who decided to go ahead with the Chinese project? Who shut down the Quebec vaccine?