OTTAWA When fully vaccinated Canadians might be able to safely resume international travel without quarantines, and whether Canada will only reopen its borders to vaccinated foreign nationals remain questions the federal government says it’s not ready to answer. According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the federal government is still looking “very carefully” at the likely prospect of vaccine passports requiring some form of proof of vaccination to travel but his focus remains on seeing Canada come out of the still-surging third wave. “As was the case pre-pandemic, certificates of vaccination are a part of international travel to certain regions and are naturally to be expected when it comes to this pandemic and the coronavirus. How we actually roll that out in alignment with partners and allies around the world, it’s something that we re working on right now,” Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday.
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Publishing date: Feb 19, 2021 • February 19, 2021 • 4 minute read • Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, founding director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology in a lab on the University of Alberta campus. The Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology is involved in the critical work to help stop the spread of the novel Coronavirus on February 10, 2020. Photo by Shaughn Butts / Postmedia Photo by Ian Kucerak /Postmedia
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The United States and the United Kingdom hit home runs on COVID vaccine development. Canada hit a single and is stuck on first base.
There’s one big reason why: our federal government failed to move quickly on procuring COVID vaccines because its leaders did not make Canadian vaccine procurement an urgent national priority, one where failure was not an option.