Continued dawdling on vaccine waiver position leaves NDP and advocates ‘extremely frustrated’

Their choice was to not make a policy decision,' says NDP MP Heather McPherson on the feds' delayed decision on a COVID-19 intellectual property waiver.

NDP MP Heather McPherson says the access to medicine system is 'flawed' and needs to be fixed to address future variants and future pandemics.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY NEIL MOSS

May 4, 2022

Nineteen months after India and South Africa put forward an intellectual property waiver on COVID-19 vaccines, Canada’s continued delay to signal an opinion on the matter has left many with a bitter taste in their mouths. The waiver was submitted at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade-Re...

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