Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With regard to Canada’s smallpox vaccine supply: (a) how many doses of smallpox vaccine does Canada have in its federal stockpile as of May 25, 2022; (b) what is Canada’s capacity to domestically manufacture smallpox vaccines, and over what time period; and (c) how many doses

Public Safety   is calling a certain group of people who believe a certain thing racist and misogynist during the political campaign in 2021. I firmly believe vaccines had a major, incredibly positive impact on limiting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there were people in Canada who had

Business of Supply   care system. It is going to be a tough conversation and we do have to de-escalate the rhetoric in it, but I have to say that the restrictions are not going to fix that. I will close with this: I encourage anybody who has not gotten vaccinated yet to do so, but continued

Business of Supply   things other than restrictions that the government could be doing to address some of the challenges that we are facing. On the first point, most restrictions in Canada were put in place to do five things: figure out what COVID was, contain COVID, give us time to get vaccines

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, as the minister mentioned, Canada now has vaccines, therapeutics and tests. We are beyond the stage we were at in March of 2020, and in fact, we are in year three. The reality is that many restrictions are still in place as a stopgap because the government has

Economic and Fiscal Update Implementation Act, 2021   vaccines and other countries were, every day we were in the House, asking questions as to when they were coming, as well as in committee meeting after committee meeting. That is the role of the opposition: to put pressure on the government to make sure that it is delivering results

Economic and Fiscal Update Implementation Act, 2021   that is not possible. COVID zero is not possible. It is not a thing. We have to learn to live with it. Restrictions were supposed to buy us time to get vaccines and therapeutics. We have both. Thank God we have both. Restrictions were supposed to incent people to get vaccinated, and very many

Order Respecting the Business of the House and its Committees  Madam Speaker, I will take this opportunity to remind Canadians that vaccines are safe and effective. I am fully vaccinated, and I encourage any Canadian who is not vaccinated to avail themselves of that opportunity. Every member who is in this place is compliant with COVID-19

Order Respecting the Business of the House and its Committees   colleagues who is fully vaccinated but contracted COVID-19, are saying that somehow he does not want to be in this place or show up for work. That is not what he wants. We all want to be able to come here and hold the government to account. I get it. I get that the government wants

COVID-19 Emergency Response  Mr. Speaker, he is right. We would not have let vaccine manufacturing capacity atrophy. We would not have raided vaccines from the COVAX fund. We would not have sent PPE abroad, putting our doctors and nurses at risk. We would not have given contracts to cronies while Canadians

Health committee  In your piece in The Globe and Mail, you said that Europe is already welcoming fully vaccinated Americans. Are there any other international examples that you would point us to in terms of best practices right now?

Health committee  This is the last question. Today, Perrin Beatty made a comment that it is now easier to fly to France for a fully vaccinated Canadian than it would be to go to Buffalo. Would you agree with that assertion?

Health committee  Thank you. As well, Mr. Stewart, it's been reported that the federal government is not currently tracking the vaccination status of returning Canadians who got their COVID-19 vaccine abroad. Is this correct?

Health committee  Okay. Do you know what the estimated number of people is who have been vaccinated abroad?

Health committee  Thank you, Chair. I'll start with a question for Dr. Lucas regarding the announcement that the Johnson & Johnson vaccines the government had been holding were going to be destroyed. Have they been destroyed?