To end the pandemic, Canada must stop standing in the way of global vaccine equity

It’s time for Canada to shed the label of a vaccine hoarder and become a nation that fights vaccine inequity.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Nov. 16, 2021, talking to reporters after a cabinet meeting. If our leaders continue to sleepwalk from one disaster to the next, we must wake them up. Canada’s future lies in the world ending this pandemic. That requires us to do our best to help vaccinate the whole world. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Ketty Nivyabandi, Madhukar Pai, and Christina Warner

December 3, 2021

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not tired of saying it throughout the pandemic: “No one is safe until everyone is safe.” But Canada’s global vaccine diplomacy has made the world less safe, not more. The emergence of the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, has been met in Canada with tra...

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