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Resident Annie Innes, 90, receives the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Abercorn House Care Home in Hamilton, Scotland, Monday Dec. 14, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Russell Cheyne/PA via AP December 14, 2020 - 1:26 PM
OTTAWA - Canada is helping fund the creation of a new international system to help distribute any extra COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, says International Development Minister Karina Gould.
âCanada is really is leaning into this space. The world is not at a point of donating excess capacity because we are just at the very beginning of vaccines getting approved,â Gould said in an interview after announcing of $485 million in new money toward the global effort to provide COVID-19 medicines to poor countries.
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Canada boosts foreign aid by $485M with new funds to global COVID-19 effort
The Canadian Press Karina Gould, Minister of International Development holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 , THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
OTTAWA - Canada is helping fund the creation of a new international system to help distribute any extra COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, says International Development Minister Karina Gould.
âCanada is really is leaning into this space. The world is not at a point of donating excess capacity because we are just at the very beginning of vaccines getting approved,â Gould said in an interview after announcing of $485 million in new money toward the global effort to provide COVID-19 medicines to poor countries.
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Dec 14, 2020 6:01am Public Services Minister Anita Anand will appear before the House industry committee this morning. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
With the House of Commons now officially closed for the season,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to spend the day in what his official itinerary describes as “private meetings,” including but not limited to chairing a pre-holiday cabinet huddle.
Although those discussions will, as always, take place behind firmly closed doors, it’s a good bet that Trudeau and his front-bench team will be keeping a close eye on the now-imminent launch of a cross-country COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the opening phase of which is set to get underway as early as tomorrow after the first batch of Pfizer vaccines touched down on Canadian soil last night.