iPolitics By Charlie Pinkerton. Published on May 10, 2021 5:41pm The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arriving in Canada on March 3 (Bill Blair via Twitter) A parliamentary committee’s request that the federal government turn over the contracts it signed with the makers of COVID-19 vaccines has gone unanswered for almost three months. That’s because Ottawa is still negotiating with the manufacturers about how to release them, a senior official from the Privy Council Office (PCO) said Monday. On Feb. 19, the House of Commons’ Health committee passed a motion attempting to secure the release of the legal agreements Ottawa signed with seven vaccine-makers: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, Medicago, and Sanofi & GSK.