The world is counting on Canada to lead on vaccine production

Let’s get the Medicago and Novavax vaccines approved so that Canada can take up a leadership role in the COVID-19 recovery effort instead of just waiting on the rest of the world to solve our problems for us.

Sadly, our current government is failing to ensure that Canadian companies can produce and get vaccines to market while more than half of Canada’s promised vaccine donations to the global COVAX facility remain unfulfilled, write Conservative MPs Ed Fast and Ryan Williams.Unsplash photograph by Steven Cornfield

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE MP ED FAST, CONSERVATIVE MP RYAN WILLIAMS

February 2, 2022

Pablum. Insulin. Child-resistant medicine containers. Heart-valve replacements. Cystic fibrosis and stem cell research. Discovering T-cell receptors in cancer research. With these medical advances and many more, each time Canada has led the world. We’ve always had the capacity to be an “innova...

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