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e-3627 (Foreign affairs)

E-petition
Initiated by Karl Parkinson from Edmonton, Alberta

Original language of petition: English

Petition to the Government of Canada

Whereas:
  • The world is facing a chronic shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, most acutely in low and lower-middle income nations;
  • The emergence of the more transmissible Delta variant means that the window to prevent even more catastrophic levels of infection and death in low and lower-middle income nations is rapidly closing;
  • Leaving large populations unvaccinated is both a direct threat to Canadian health security by allowing for more potential variants to arise and is morally and ethically wrong;
  • Canada has contracts in place for 10 doses per inhabitant, which is far more than realistically needed;
  • These excess doses must be re-routed to vulnerable populations in low and middle-income nations, and it must be done as soon as possible, with timelines measured in weeks and months not years; and
  • While Canada does not have domestic vaccine production capabilities at present, it does have the ability to produce other crucial elements needed such as vials, syringes, and needles.
We, the undersigned, residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Ensure that every nation has access to purchase or produce vaccines at affordable rates;
2. Support the WTO TRIPS waiver proposed by India and South Africa which would temporarily waive intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and related technologies;
3. Move up the timelines for donating excess doses;
4. Immediately and urgently pledge Canadian manufacturing resources and knowledge to scale up all parts of the global vaccine supply chain; and
5. Dedicate Canadian manufacturing capabilities to produce whatever parts of the vaccine supply chain we can in short order.
Open for signature
November 30, 2021, at 3:05 p.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
December 30, 2021, at 3:05 p.m. (EDT)
Photo - Heather McPherson
Edmonton Strathcona
New Democratic Party Caucus
Alberta