He has written to the Liberals, Conservatives and the NDP asking them to push back against a Conservative motion requesting those documents. "We urge you to resist calls for disclosing any proprietary and confidential business information shared in private with the government of Canada and we commit ourselves to working with you to ensure that this does not happen," Darby wrote. "If these disclosures are too broad, it will negatively impact business operations for manufacturers in Canada and around the globe," Darby wrote. "I am very concerned with releasing documents, vaccine contracts, PPE contracts ... because we will undermine those relationships." The co-chairs of the Liberal government's COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force also expressed their concern in a letter sent Thursday to the leaders of all five federal political parties.

Source: CBC News October 23, 2020 21:56 UTC