Health committee  I should qualify that. Canada has some fantastic vaccine manufacturers, but a lot of these facilities are built for specific vaccines. Basically, Sanofi Pasteur's largest investment ever was to enhance a facility in downtown Toronto, but that's for a specific vaccine. I think you

Health committee  I have been working on vaccine manufacturing capacity in VIDO-InterVac for over a decade. The federal government put an initial amount of money in to help build this in 2018, but it's a general consensus from emergency preparedness. It's not a hard calculation. If we have 35 mill

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. There's actually a very long and complex answer. The previous vaccines we've developed have been for animals, which is a much simpler regulatory process. The human vaccines generally take 10 years to develop, and the estimates now suggest up

Health committee  Those are two easy questions, aren't they? I think one of the key things, as Volker said, is that our goal is to bring us forward for Canadians. There is nothing in the current funding agreement that would stipulate that, but we received Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fundi

Finance committee  I thought I'd give the committee a brief overview of our organization. We are an infectious disease research and vaccine development organization. We're part of the University of Saskatchewan. We were established just over 40 years ago, with a partnership between the western prov