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COVID-19: Canada Responds
PM Trudeau on COVID-19 Vaccines, Residential Schools, MMIWG Action Plan
On Parliament Hill, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discusses the federal government’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. He is joined virtually by Public Services and Procurement Minister Anita Anand, as well as Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Howard Njoo, deputy chief public health officer, and Brigadier-General Krista Brodie, the vice-president of logistics and operations at the Public Health Agency of Canada and head of the country's vaccine distribution efforts. The prime minister confirms that Canada will be receiving at least 2 million vaccine doses from Pfizer each week until the end of August. He faces questions about residential school burial sites and the Catholic Church's withholding of records in light of the discovery of the buried remains of 215 children at the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. He is also asked about the federal government's action plan in response to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry's calls for justice. (June 4, 2021)