Foreign Affairs committee  It's an excellent question, and one that I do not have an answer to. I can speak to what's been done to date, which is additional funding provided to the department that ensures the integrity of current reference level flows.

Foreign Affairs committee  At this point, we're pleased to be the second most important donor towards that initiative. We're hoping that vaccines start rolling out the door next year. It will be a really important step for South Africa to be able to produce mRNA vaccines on soil. Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  I can take that one. I would say it's a multipronged approach whereby our support to COVAX is the primary mechanism to help end the acute phase of the pandemic right now, and that's by cash financing through grant agreements and through the provision of in-kind doses that are don

Foreign Affairs committee  Our understanding is that the situation differs significantly from country to country, so the responses that we are trying to support differ as well. We're working hand in hand with ministries of health and the World Health Organization to put in place vaccine competence campaign

Foreign Affairs committee  That's an excellent question. We are doing our best to distinguish the various funding amounts made available to COVAX. Through that mechanism, we endeavour not only to purchase, distribute and transport doses, but also to provide cold chain and technical support to countries in

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have any concerns. The AstraZeneca doses were the first vaccines that Canada donated to the facility, and were made available from the manufacturer. It's natural that more of those were allocated initially. We now see that—

Foreign Affairs committee  An earlier question touched on the overall volume by name and delivery by COVAX. That information is publicly available. I don't have it at my fingertips, but I'm happy to make sure the committee has line of sight on all the vaccines allocated.

Foreign Affairs committee  Both of those received EUL, and were available from COVAX. I understand demand was low, so I can't confirm that, but that's the overall volume that was shipped. That will be part of the information we will share.

Foreign Affairs committee  Canada, like other G7 countries, is committed to ensure that there's an effective multilateral mechanism, so that countries have a choice when they are looking for a safe and effective vaccine. COVAX is now providing that.

Foreign Affairs committee  Multiple countries attempted to pair vaccine offers with a desire for influence earlier in the pandemic, when supply was scarce. Now that supply is abundant, we hope countries will continue to choose safe and effective vaccines, and that's what COVAX offers.

Foreign Affairs committee  None of them is. We would only offer, through COVAX, vaccines that we had procured. That meant they had received regulatory approval from Health Canada, and also from the World Health Organization.

Foreign Affairs committee  There would be other people better placed to speak about Canada's domestic strategy. We have made AstraZeneca doses available through COVAX for donation. It is a dose that continues to be sought by some countries around the world, and we have recent information from COVAX that

Foreign Affairs committee  On the proportion...?

Foreign Affairs committee  I can say that of the roughly 15 million doses that Canada has provided in kind, about five million have been Moderna and about 10 million have been AstraZeneca. I don't have the dose equivalents that COVAX has purchased and allocated from our financial contributions attributed d

Foreign Affairs committee  That's correct. There might be a difference of cent or two if it was based on a U.S. equivalency, but yes.