Canada’s inability to manufacture vaccines in-house will delay distribution: Trudeau

Canada will not be first in line for COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during his morning briefing in front of Rideau Cottage on Tuesday (Nov. 24).

“We recognize the disadvantage Canada has of not having a domestic pharmaceutical industry capable of making the vaccines,” Trudeau said.

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Trudeau says Canadians will likely have to wait until 2021 for first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

“Since the very beginning we knew there would be challenges because unlike the Germans, Americans and the British we don’t have a mass production capacity for vaccines so we had to come up with broader sources than those sources and that’s precisely what we did and we were even criticized internationally because we got too much access to vaccines,” Trudeau said.

  1. Isn’t the first priority of government to protect its citizens?
  2. There’s a country that borders Canada that is screaming to purchase medicine from them. Why hasn’t any effort been made to create a pharmaceutical industry?
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