Madam Speaker, what I am criticizing is how long it took to get the first vaccines.
After we were told that vaccination was a month behind schedule, what was the economic and social cost of that? That kind of delay has major repercussions.
I think Canada could have done much better and made things happen a lot faster, but that did not happen. Fortunately, we seem to be catching up.
I want to stress the importance of having domestic pharmaceutical capacity. Quebec had it, but when Ottawa dropped the ball, the industry moved away. That has to change.