In particular, we'd like the Public Health Agency of Canada—and this is our recommendation number 72—to improve its systems and procedures regarding vaccine stockpiles, including on their use and distribution, and to collaborate more by implementing a plan, with provinces and territories, to secure data-sharing agreements for monitoring vaccine use so that they have a better handle on the uptake rate and so on, as well as being better able to manage the safe distribution and storage and to minimize wastage.
The agency has agreed to that recommendation. It remains to be seen whether they will act on it in a way that prevents our office from having to do another report of this nature the next time there is a large procurement of vaccines.