Canada-China Relations committee  Yes, I was informed that the vaccine was going to be for emergency use authorization prior to the end of the clinical trials we were planning by the Chinese military.

Canada-China Relations committee  I think those were two different issues. One was that we were attempting to get the vaccine in order to do clinical trials to obtain more information about the use of those vaccines. As you're aware, before those vaccines could be used for emergency use and in the general population, they would need to go through phase one, phase two and phase three studies before emergency authorization would be approved for the general population, certainly in Canada and elsewhere.

Canada-China Relations committee  When we started having discussions with CanSino, they were with NRC, the National Research Council, and CanSino. Our interactions were with the company, which was in the business of undertaking clinical trials to show the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. The interaction between that company and the government was not really an issue that I was looking at.

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to speak to the committee. In addition to those descriptions of what I do, I am the nominated principal or co-principal investigator for two national networks relevant to vaccine research. The first is IMPACT, which is the Immunization Monitoring Program, Active.