Mr. Speaker, last week, we learned that President Biden will be contributing $4 billion to COVAX. Meanwhile, Canada is the only G7 country that has accessed vaccines through the COVAX program, a program intended to prevent more people from dying in low and middle-income countries and to prevent dangerous variants from developing and affecting everyone, including Canadians. This is an international embarrassment.
Could the minister admit that the Liberals are accessing COVAX because of their failures to invest in domestic pharmaceutical research, development and manufacturing capacity?