Canadian Politics Today

in regards Pfizer vaccine deliveries - March 8 Question Period: Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Anita Anand, schools "CPC Health Critic", BuffaloGal Rempel:

accepting to the dynamics involved in vaccine development, trial results, approval submissions/requests, manufacturing timelines, etc.: in referencing back to when the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was the first... the only... vaccine to have received Health Canada approval, the president of Pfizer Canada (Cole Pinnow) stated today that when the company signed a purchase agreement with Canada last August it didn't expect its COVID-19 vaccine to get approved in Canada until February. Actual Health Canada approval came on Dec 9th.

When the first doses were delivered to Canada on Dec. 14, Canada was the second major country in the world to receive them, and it was almost two months earlier than originally anticipated. Per agreement, Pfizer was to ship four million doses between January and March; Pfizer was able to ship 255,000 doses in December. By the end of March Pfizer will increase its deliveries to 5.5 million doses.