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Originally Posted by PeterT
I'm not sure Canada got to pick where the vaccines would be supplied from.
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Below is the website that I was paraphrasing from:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56035306
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Why is Canada lagging behind?
Canada was criticised at the end of last year for buying up multiple times the supply it needs to cover its population.
It has signed deals with seven vaccine suppliers - Moderna and Pfizer, as well as ones with pending authorisation like AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson - for a total of over 400 million doses.
But it seems it wasn't positioned for priority delivery of the two authorised jabs.
That's partly because the country decided to invest in vaccines from European factories, afraid that the US, under former president Donald Trump, would issue export bans.
In December, Mr Trump did issue an executive order to give Americans "first priority" for vaccines produced in the US, though it was considered a mostly symbolic move. President Joe Biden has not suggested a change of course.
European factories are struggling with supply and recently it has been the EU that has been threatening those bans.
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Somewhere else I had read that the Europeans were considering export bans. But I can't find where I was reading that. And as I think about it more, it may actually have been India that was considering export bans, not Europe. I can't remember now, and I'm starting to doubt my memory of Europe as the potential banner since the idea it might be India has crept in.