My hunch is that it is for economic reasons. Canada, like other countries, is in negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to gain access to supply. We do not know how much each country paid for the vaccines or the treatments, but we do know that the prices are not the same from one country to the next. There are also negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to have local facilities so that we can produce our own vaccines. Unfortunately, that is hanging in the balance. On one hand, we do not want to put ourselves at odds with the pharmaceutical companies we are negotiating with; on the other hand, we should be putting much stronger political pressure on these companies.
