Madam Speaker, plans to develop a vaccine in partnership with China and CanSino failed.
On February 2, the Bloc Québécois asked the Minister of Health why the government had chosen China over Canada's own production capacity. She replied that “the decision about which candidates we should place our bets on was guided by the advice of the experts on the vaccine task force.” Yesterday, however, the task force confirmed that, on the contrary, it had recommended against moving forward with CanSino.
Why did the government go against the recommendations of the experts and, more importantly, why did it cover that up?