Trudeau government is being pressed to approve funding for a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine to lessen the risk Canadians will have to line up and wait on a foreign-made pandemic cure.For instance, health-care professionals have written to Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains to urge him make up his mind on a proposal submitted in April by Providence Therapeutics of Toronto.
The company is seeking $35 million to establish whether its vaccine is effective in humans after successful animal trials.They say Canada has no guarantee it will be at the front of any line for an internationally produced pandemic cure.