when anita anand claims that releasing information about covid-19 contracts may put negotiations about vaccines in jeopardy, she is no doubt correct. but, she is not speaking to the people of this country, who she does not care about and does not represent. rather, she is speaking directly to big pharma and to international finance, which are the interests she actually represents.

what she is saying is that public oversight may impact the ability for her to write checks from the public purse - call them handouts, call it corporate welfare, call it corruption - to her capitalist cronies, and she is standing in the house of commons and transparently stating it, in a statement of direct contempt for democracy.

it's remarkable, but it's neo-liberalism in a colonial state, under a government that represents foreigners more than it represents the people that elected it.