Clearly, with this pandemic and all the other crises that the world is facing—climate, the economic repercussions of the pandemic, conflict, global displacement—we need the ODA to go up to be able to support the world with the long-term fallout of this pandemic. I would strongly urge the government to ensure that any.... It's great if it can get credit for its vaccine donations, but it needs to increase ODA proportionately.
Vaccine inequality has prolonged the pandemic. It has reversed some of the fragile women's rights gains that we were making, thanks to wonderful investments like those of the feminist international assistance policy. In that sense, I would say that vaccine inequity has threatened, or is threatening, the ambitions and the achievements of the feminist international assistance policy.
It's in Canadian interests, if we don't want to see the wonderful work that we've done and invested in go to waste, to make sure that we increase international assistance rates to compensate for what's happening and the extra money we need to spend on vaccines.