What happened to the Canadian government’s deal with a China-based company to produce a made-in-Canada vaccine early in the COVID-19 pandemic? The Fifth Estate’s The Vaccine investigates how the controversial deal fell apart without a single dose administered to Canadians. And we ask why it was signed despite warnings from Canada’s intelligence officials about China, where the government was holding two Canadians.

How Trudeau’s failed vaccine deal with China wasted millions | The Vaccine

Via CBC:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, speaks with scientist Krishnaraj Tiwari during a visit to the National Research Council of Canada Royalmount Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre in Montreal on Aug 31, 2020. Early in the pandemic, the prime minister promised to deliver a made-in-Canada vaccine but that has not materialized. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)

How a failed deal with China to produce a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine wasted months and millions

The CanSino vaccine, which had been created by the scientific research arm of China’s military, was to be shipped to Canada for human trials that May.