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Mr. Speaker, obviously, we are taking urgent action to get the vaccine doses. We have clearly shown Canadians that we can procure vaccines. We will receive six million doses by the end of the first quarter of 2021, and we will have a sufficient number of already approved doses by the end the third quarter, the end of September, to ensure that every Canadian who wants the vaccine will have access t…
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Mr. Speaker, we have informed all the provinces and territories, as well as all Canadians, of the number of doses we are expecting. We will receive enough doses by the end of the third quarter with the two approved vaccines alone. We will be able to provide the vaccine to every Canadian who wants one by the end of September.
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Mr. Speaker, we have clearly communicated the information about vaccine deliveries to the provinces and territories. I want to reiterate for my hon. colleague that we will be receiving six million vaccine doses by the end of the first quarter, and that we will keep increasing the number of doses received by Canada and Quebec throughout the year so that by the end of September every Canadian who wa…
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Mr. Speaker, as we have set out many times, and shared with provinces and territories, we have a delivery schedule of vaccines that have already been approved that gets us to a sufficient number, whereby every Canadian who wishes to receive a vaccine by the end of September will have access to one. Of course, we have procured other vaccines that are in the middle of regulatory approval or have yet…
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Mr. Speaker, of course we are talking to our provincial and territorial partners about the vaccines they can expect to receive. We have contracts to purchase enough approved vaccine to make sure every Canadian who wants to be vaccinated will be by the end of the third quarter. We will continue to be open and transparent and to make sure our partners have what they need to make sure the massive cam…
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Mr. Speaker, we have been very clear about our schedule of vaccine deliveries, and that schedule is the same. We will be receiving six million doses before the end of Q1, and we will be continuing to ramp up deliveries such that Canadians who want a vaccine will be able to access one by the end of September. This is information we have supplied consistently with Canadians and this is information w…
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Mr. Speaker, we know that 1.1 million doses of the vaccine have already entered Canada. That number is among the best in the G20, and that number will continue to ramp up to six million in the first quarter and continue right throughout the year so that all Canadians who wish to receive a vaccine by the end of September will be able to receive a vaccine. This is information we have shared on numer…
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Mr. Speaker, as we have repeated so many times, we have the most diversified portfolio of vaccines and vaccine candidates in the world. Yes, we signed agreements with Pfizer. Yes, we are expecting four million doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the first quarter. That number will increase throughout 2021, and all Canadians who want a vaccine will get one by the end of September. That is still the case…
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Mr. Speaker, I share the hon. member’s sense of urgency when it comes to vaccinating all Canadians. It is a sense of urgency that we all share as a government, including the Prime Minister—who is speaking with leaders around the world and with the CEOs of the big pharmaceutical companies—the minister I am representing today and myself. We are working on this every day. We are doing our jobs, and e…
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Mr. Speaker, as my dear colleague knows very well, we are considering adding a third shipyard to the national shipbuilding strategy for all Canadians. Unlike the government he represented, we are putting ships in the water. We are expanding work across Canada, as we did for the Davie shipyard with the icebreakers. I thank the hon. member for his interest, and I assure him that we will continue to …
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Mr. Speaker, plan A through Z has been to have the most diversified vaccine portfolio in the world. That is what we have done. We have announced deliveries of six million vaccines in the first quarter, and that will be ramping up right through the end of Q3, by which time we have told all Canadians who wish to receive one, that they will have access to a vaccine. That is the story we have told Can…
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to share my time with my hon. friend and colleague from the national capital region, the member for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell. I am pleased to have the opportunity, at least metaphorically, to rise in the House and speak about vaccine delivery. Canadians have been struggling through this pandemic for almost a year now. From the very beginning, we have had their health an…
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Madam Speaker, what I say to all of those people, all of whom fit profiles of people in my riding, and I presume in the hon. member's riding and in every riding in the country, is that their stories motivate us, they animate us, they get us out of bed in the morning and they make sure that we do everything we can to deliver every single possible dose of vaccine to Canadians in the shortest possibl…
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Mr. Speaker, I can assure my hon. colleague that the Prime Minister, his ministers, Canadian diplomats and the entire government are working with our European counterparts. Those countries are some of our closest allies. We worked with countries in Europe and around the world to keep supply lines and supply chains for personal protective equipment open. Obviously, we will do the same for vaccines,…
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Mr. Speaker, here is the information with regard to rent increase notices issued to clients renting space in government-owned buildings during the pandemic. With regard to part (a), from March 1, 2020 to November 5, 2020, in Public Services and Procurement Canada-owned buildings, 42 rent increases have been issued to tenants that do not require rent relief, are currently not participating in the r…
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Mr. Speaker, with regard to part (a) of the question, for the volume of Lettermail, refer to the attached annex. It was not possible to provide a breakdown of the data by province and territory and month by month within the allotted time. With regard to part (b), unless a piece of mail is tracked, Canada Post Corporation, CPC, cannot determine what is not delivered. CPC would know the volume of ma…
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