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My name is Omar Rajabali. I'm the acting director general of social policy within the Department of Finance. I'm here to provide an overview of the part entitled “Canada's COVID-19 Immunization Plan”. This is division 13, clause 198.
This measure establishes an appropriations authority payment of up to $1 billion out of the consolidated revenue fund by the Minister of Finance to provinces and territories in support of Canada's COVID immunization plan. Payments are to be allocated to provinces and territories on a per capita basis and can be used for a variety of vaccine-related costs.
The payment will be made in 2021-22. The statutory payment authority will ensure that funding is available to support provinces and territories in this last step to vaccinate Canadians.
I'll pause there.