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House Hansard - 63

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 3, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/3/22 2:46:19 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate very much the key word, which is “freedom”. The reason we have the freedom to relax those measures in Canada is that many Canadians, in fact, the vast majority of Canadians, have received their first, their second and, in many cases, their third dose. When we hear the opposition speak about public health measures, but badly about vaccination, we have to make a choice. We cannot have relaxation of public health measures and more freedom without vaccination as we go through COVID-19.
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Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/3/22 2:47:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, 135,000 is the number of lives lost in the United States because it had a lower vaccination rate than we had in Canada, and 135,000 people is about the size of any one of the ridings in our country. There were 135,000 lives lost because the other country had a lower vaccination rate. That is not only a personal but a social tragedy.
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Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/3/22 3:08:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am very glad to receive a question from an MP from Newfoundland, with which we have a great relationship. We are very grateful for their hard work through the last two years. We are also very grateful for the important work that they do every day to provide people in Newfoundland with primary care providers in health: family physicians. In order to reduce the backlog, a $2-billion investment that we announced just a few weeks ago will make sure that every person in that province, and in all provinces and territories, benefits from the wonderful collaboration we are having across Canada.
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Context: House Hansard - 63 - May/3/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • May/3/22 3:10:23 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, everyone in the House obviously agrees on the importance of being responsible and prudent. We have done what Canadians have expected of us in the past two years. Canadians have done what we expected of them in the past two years, which was to follow public health measures and to get vaccinated. Because of that, in Canada we have achieved one of the lowest death rates in the world. If that is called being an “outlier”, we are very proud of that.
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