Canada raised domestic manufacturing ‘at every turn’ with suppliers, told capacity ‘too limited’: Anand

Opposition MPs questioned whether the government’s vaccine rollout is realistic, saying provinces need more details to keep up with the 70 million doses expected by September.

Procurement Minister Anita Anand shed more light on the contracts signed with the pharmaceutical companies, saying they specify only that vaccines will come on a quarterly basis, so though companies have committed to weekly rollouts, they aren’t legally obligated to fulfil them.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

February 4, 2021

Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Canada “proactively and repeatedly” approached manufacturers to push domestic vaccine production, but the country’s biomedical capacity was “too limited” to justify the investment of capital and expertise to start manufac...

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