A professor of Law and Public Health at the University of Ottawa told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health on Monday that federal transparency on COVID-19 has been “pathetically lacking”.
Dr. Amir Attaran  gives the example of committee meetings on whether or not Canada should consider vaccine passports for those who have been immunized, where the minutes haven’t been made public. He says you can’t have the most important science decisions in generations being made in secret.

Dr. Attaran feels Canada’s biggest problem is the lack of manufacturing resilience in our vaccine purchases, because we are dependent on the pharmaceutical companies from Europe. He suggests Canada should also be purchasing from independent manufacturing companies like Australia and India are doing, rather than just from the originator of the vaccine.

Attaran expects it wouldn’t be too difficult to contract these companies who are already making these vaccines for other countries, to do the same for Canada. Dr. Attaran also pointed out Canada’s lack of a mass vaccination plan once there is enough to go around.