Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Minister. Thanks to the member. I can go into more detail in writing, of course, afterwards, but some of the other leading donors right now include Germany, with a substantial commitment, alongside the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Those are sort of

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. It is my pleasure to be here before the committee. I'm joined today from Geneva by my colleague Stephen de Boer, Canadian ambassador and permanent representative to the WTO. Building on decades of leadership in global health, Canada has been a champion of vacc

Foreign Affairs committee  Much of the funding that Canada has provided to the COVAX facility is for the procurement of vaccines by COVAX. COVAX purchases the vaccines and allocates them through the WHO allocation mechanism to countries in need. As such, the 87 million doses that we have procured the equi

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, that is through grant funding to the COVAX facility partners; as such, we work with trusted international assistance partners, like the GAVI, the global alliance for vaccines. They work with other partners to procure doses through the grant funding provided by Canada, other

Foreign Affairs committee  To date, Canada has provided $540 million to the COVAX facility.

Foreign Affairs committee  The G7 methodology agreed with COVAX takes the total support provided by a donor to COVAX in terms of unrestricted grant supports for COVAX's work and then calculates the dose equivalency based on that. For Canada, that $554 million in grant supports translates to the equivalent

Foreign Affairs committee  Canada works closely with COVAX to ensure that COVAX receives the support it requires to partner with developing countries and others to meet their vaccine needs. We're already at just over 100 million doses provided against that commitment of 200 million, some from the cash proc

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry, sir, but I'm not well positioned to speak about Canada's overall procurement. When doses are made available for donation, we offer them to COVAX, and COVAX uses its allocation framework to place them where they are most needed around the world.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's an excellent question but quite a detailed one. That information is publicly available on COVAX's website. I would be happy to make sure there is follow-up for that. At a general level, I can say that COVAX is only in position to procure vaccines that are received through

Foreign Affairs committee  At this stage, we don't have any detailed or granular information about doses going to waste. I can assure you that no countries received doses from COVAX that they had not agreed to take. There have been no doses shipped through COVAX that have not been explicitly requested and

Foreign Affairs committee  It is a monumental undertaking to have designed a new multilateral mechanism for the procurement and delivery of vaccines. I would point to a few specific milestones that give us comfort and confidence in how effective the mechanism has been. First, the COVAX mechanism was able

Foreign Affairs committee  There's a great deal of analysis and multiple opinions on this question. It's one the committee is likely to return to. Personally, I do think that the world is on track for an average immunization level of around 70% or even exceeding it by the end of 2022. I will note, however,

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for that excellent question. Low demand is not necessarily an optimistic sign. It's a complex challenge. The doses are available. If Haiti wants to access doses through COVAX, they could be there in a few weeks. Low vaccination rates are not the result of a shortage o

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. Our offer of vaccines to the government and people of Haiti is quite clear, and our ambassador is keeping a very close eye on the situation. We are ready to work with the Haitians as soon as they tell us they need doses to administer. We are here fo

Foreign Affairs committee  Go ahead, Mr. Patterson, I can come back on the WHO side if necessary.