Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I do not have any knowledge of the Medicago case, so it is hard for me to answer your question.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think that Canada promised more than 200 million doses. However, so far only 14 or 15 million doses have been made available. At that rate, it will take a very long time.

Foreign Affairs committee  That is a good question. Generally speaking, international obligations are not backed by sanctions. Rather, countries themselves impose their own sanctions, by which I mean that they give themselves the legislative tools to ensure they respect their international commitments. I

Foreign Affairs committee  I think it's very important to have a counterweight to the pharmaceutical companies' excessive power. Government needs to matter more than private sector economic interests. That is the main thing to work on. There are national economic interests tied to the economic interests of

Foreign Affairs committee  My hunch is that it is for economic reasons. Canada, like other countries, is in negotiations with pharmaceutical companies to gain access to supply. We do not know how much each country paid for the vaccines or the treatments, but we do know that the prices are not the same from

Foreign Affairs committee  Exactly.

Foreign Affairs committee  Exactly. I believe Canada should support the ongoing work to establish a treaty on pandemics specifically. We can expect more pandemics, so the idea is that, when the next one comes along, we can avoid spending months or even years debating these issues as we are doing now. A tre

Foreign Affairs committee  I would first like to say that my area of expertise, and that of Amnesty International, is limited to human rights. We have concerns about the fact that the changes or restrictions requested are not consistent with the spirit of human rights or the treaties and conventions signed

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not exactly sure why treatments were not included, but what you are suggesting makes sense to me. I think we need to keep in mind that pharmaceutical companies want to control the profits. All along, economic interests have taken precedence over the health and the lives of en

Foreign Affairs committee  The right to health means the right to access all available treatments, regardless of what they are, and to have fair and equal access to health care, no matter what it is. We can infer that vaccines are part of health care for many diseases, including COVID‑19.

Foreign Affairs committee  Could you repeat your question? I'm not sure I understood.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. We have been having discussions with the government and different stakeholders. It has not been easy. We had to push a lot 18 months ago to have these meetings and discussions. However, we cannot say that discussions are not taking place. There are discussions, but it

Foreign Affairs committee  The question is for me?

Foreign Affairs committee  As already mentioned, we have been living with this pandemic for more than two years, and there have been delays and negotiations for more than two years. We are asking the government to demonstrate real leadership and to be constructive in order to resolve the situation. We real

Foreign Affairs committee  Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Thank you for this invitation. Amnesty International, as an organization that defends human rights, became involved from the very beginning of the pandemic in order to call for unwavering international solidarity by all states, including Canad