e-3836 (Foreign affairs)
Original language of petition: French
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Global, equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine is needed to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic;
- COVID-19 vaccination rates in low-income countries and even in some middle-income countries remain far too low to slow global transmission of the virus;
- As long as the COVID-19 virus continues to infect large numbers of people worldwide, variants will continue to emerge;
- Distribution of vaccine doses promised by Canada through COVAX is sluggish; and
- Legal mechanisms, such as compulsory or voluntary licensing, can be used to decentralize the production of vaccines and make it possible for them to be manufactured by laboratories other than those of the pharmaceutical companies that have commercialized them.
- Open for signature
- February 11, 2022, at 3:26 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- April 12, 2022, at 3:26 p.m. (EDT)