Email Minister Joly

Dear ONE supporters,

As the Budget 2022 fast approaches we want to make sure that Canada’s commitments to global health equity are front and centre in the discussion. As more and more Canadians are vaccinated and boosted, Canada’s leadership in vaccinating the world increases in importance and impact. To prevent the next variant of concern and more lockdowns, we need to share resources, doses, and knowledge with developing countries.

The pandemic will not be over here, until it is over everywhere.

With this in mind, we are asking the Foreign Affairs Minister to make advocating for global vaccine equity and other measures to end the pandemic globally a central investment in Budget 2022.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Melanie Joly plays a key role in Canada’s global engagement and in ensuring we meet our commitments to global vaccine equity.

Join us in asking the Minister to do all she can to protect Canada’s leadership in global health in the next federal budget by advocating for the necessary resources to end COVID everywhere.

Please write a letter in your own words to Minister Joly.

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    • Vaccine inequity prolongs the pandemic, allowing more sophisticated variants to emerge, like the devastating wave of Omicron, and continues to widen global inequality. The next variant is preventable if we act now. 
    • To end the pandemic here, we need to end it everywhere – and that means meeting the commitments and promises Canada has made on achieving global vaccination rates of 70% by mid-2022.
    • One thing we must urgently do is share more resources to help developing countries with their vaccination campaigns and to help them tackle new outbreaks.
    • Last year, Canada demonstrated its global health leadership by being one of the first countries to make commitments to the ACT-Accelerator. That leadership must be demonstrated again with a NEW $1.1 billion investment in the next budget, including a renewed commitment to the ACT-Accelerator partners for tests, treatments and vaccines, and to help countries deliver and administer those. 
    • This investment must be above and beyond current international assistance levels. Increasing the International Assistance Envelope to $9 billion in the next budget is our best chance to stabilize global health systems which have diverted resources in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and to slow down the reversal of gains that we’ve made in health and development over decades – building the conditions necessary for gender equality, security, facing the climate crisis and our global recovery.
    • Canada is a leader in the global health space, and the evidence is clear that we must accelerate vaccinations to end the pandemic, to restore economic stability, and to protect the health and wellness of all Canadians.

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