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   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

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

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

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

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

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

Business of Supply  . Instead of having vaccines in January and February of this year, we are sitting in a third wave. That is the reality. If we had received more vaccines in January and February, we would not be sitting in a third wave that is this severe. That is a fact. Every week, somebody from

COVID-19 in Alberta   it is, but we need a durable solution, which has not been delivered to us, and the federal government has a major role in that. What does the federal government need to do from a solutions perspective? First, the government needs a stable supply of vaccines. The provincial government

Health  Mr. Speaker, thousands of doses of vaccines in Detroit are set to expire next week. Shamefully content to let these doses go in the garbage, the Minister of Health, Stephen Lucas and Iain Stewart have blocked every effort of the mayor of Windsor to bring these vaccines

Health  Mr. Speaker, thank you for that advice to the health minister. Even though only 3% of Canadians are fully vaccinated, by now Canadians should have advice from the federal government on what they can look forward to once fully vaccinated. This also applies to half-vaccinated

Health committee  Vaccines are going into the garbage today in Detroit. They want to send them to Canada, because they're about to be wasted, but.... This is a great segue to my next line of questions. Dr. Stewart, you implied there were enough vaccines in Canada right now, that there were 20

Health committee  I just don't accept the assertion that we have enough vaccines in Canada right now. We're essentially on a nationwide lockdown, waiting, and some people are being told they will have to wait four months between vaccinations. NACI has approved a four-month dosing, so I find