Health committee  That's a good question, but it's a little bit outside my area of expertise. I think that, as in every country in the world, vaccination was seen as the way to end the pandemic. All countries rushed to acquire vaccines.

Health committee  As I mentioned earlier, I think the vaccine confidence subgroup of the Government of Canada is doing great work in starting to communicate. What we've missed is that we should have started that much earlier. This could have been done in the past summer. I think this left an empty

Health committee  The Government of Canada is already doing a lot of work through the vaccine task force with many campaigns. What we face at the moment is an infodemic, an epidemic of information and communication on top of the pandemic. There's a lot of confusion. There's a lot of publicity arou

Health committee  There's a lot of good work. From a governmental perspective, it's hard to have a take on what the media are doing. One of the major issues is around how all the journalists are looking at details. It's more along those lines.

Health committee  Thank you. I guess I am here as a medical anthropologist working on vaccine acceptance. I'd like to emphasize that at this time our vaccine supply does not meet vaccine demand and that the work we're doing in Quebec looking at vaccine intentions indicates that most Canadians ar