The federal Liberal government has spent three years deliberating on an invitation to join a global body that designs vaccinations to protect the world's poorest from preventable diseases.
, the institute has been focused on helping developing countries gain the capacity to manufacture vaccines.
The letter asked Canada to consider making a financial contribution and suggested it could use its membership to help advocate for developing countries' manufacturing capacity. "It had not previously joined or funded an 'upstream' organization like IVI, which presented a new challenge and opportunity for Global Affairs Canada," McCann said in an emailed statement.In spring 2022, the institute made what it called a sales pitch to Canadian officials, with a slideshow that stressed financial contributions are voluntary. Just five countries fund the institute, which gets them access to fellowships and scholarships.
McCann said Joly was slated to announced Canada was joining the agency during a visit to Seoul last October, "but the visit and announcement were postponed, on account of procedural delays associated with parliamentary review of IVI's treaty." At the height of the pandemic, Canada faced global scrutiny for being among the countries that bought the most COVID-19 vaccines per capita while being slow to provide unused doses to other countries.
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