Feds criticized for how they disclosed redacted vaccine contracts By Charlie Pinkerton. Published on Jun 14, 2021 5:34pm Procurement Minister Anita Anand and Canada Border Services Agency agents with early shipments of COVID-19 vaccines in December 2020 (CBSA photo) By sending redacted versions of Canada’s COVID-vaccine contracts directly to the House of Commons’ Health committee, the government’s Procurement Department may have defied a House order and committee motion asking for their release, leading opposition MPs to threaten to charge it with contempt of Parliament. Opposition MPs spent months chasing the release of the contracts the federal government signed with producers of COVID vaccines. In that time, federal ministers and officials resisted, insisting that blanket confidentiality clauses prevent their contents from being made public.