Health committee  The only thing this highlights is the production issue that Ms. Ravon just mentioned. I think it's unprecedented for everybody around the world to want to have a vaccine at the same time, so this is really making production an issue, and it's really going to be difficult this yea

Health committee  My understanding is that these vary greatly vaccine by vaccine, so it's hard to make an average, but I've heard the figure of 80% for some vaccines in some countries.

Health committee  To answer your question, I think that the question is about the future of cities. I would phrase it that way, with commercial real estate, perhaps with some offices, downsizing space. I think this is a possibility, but at the same time, we can see that things could go in any dire

Health committee  I think the main risk, in addition to what Ms. Ravon has said, is that a number of emerging countries could well lose de facto motivation to vaccinate if they find that it is too costly or too tricky or if production remains a big bottleneck. I think this is the main risk.

Health committee  I do not believe that it is my place to make recommendations to Canada. I think that our study was to look at global vaccination timelines.

Health committee  Our forecast is that the main risk to the global economy—obviously there is the coronavirus pandemic and everything related to vaccines—is having a spike in inflation. It's not our baseline scenario, but if inflation were to spike because of a spike in global demand once the glob

Health committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to reply that, yes indeed, the pandemic has had an impact on commercial real estate. I'm afraid I haven't prepared anything on the subject today, so I would be hard pressed to give a definitive answer. I apologize about that.

Health committee  Thank you very much. Honourable members of the committee, I'm very pleased and honoured to be here today. My name is Agathe Demarais. I'm the global forecasting director at The Economist Intelligence Unit. In January, we published a study presenting our forecasts for global co