Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary said, “domestic manufacturing...has hardly been a silver bullet” in addressing the vaccine shortage. That is really shocking. Then she referenced Australia, which closed its borders early instead of suggesting that closing the border was racist or xenophobic. Does she honestly believe Canada's domestic manufacturing capacity is adequate to deal with the vaccine shortage? She might want to retract that statement. It was a little alarming, perhaps misleading and promotes a lot of fear, as her party has been doing on this issue.
In the House of Commons on April 13th, 2021. See this statement in context.