<div dir="ltr">Thanks Allan, signed it hard to believe the corporate selfishness that such a request has to be made! Shame on Canada et al!<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 10:54 AM Allan Baker via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hi Guys;<div><br></div><div>Here’s a petition request from a friend who lives in P.E.I.</div><div><br></div><div>Why would Canada, the U.S.A., and the U.K. object to making COVID vaccines more readily available, at a lower price?</div><div>Allan<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">"Mary Cowper-Smith" <<a href="mailto:mcowper-smith@rogers.com" target="_blank">mcowper-smith@rogers.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>You may wish to consider signing this petition</b><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">March 1, 2021 at 8:26:19 PM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">"'Mary Cowper-Smith'" <<a href="mailto:mcowper-smith@rogers.com" target="_blank">mcowper-smith@rogers.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div>Dear Family and Friends,<br>You may have heard in the news over the past couple of months that India and<br>South Africa have brought a motion forward at the World Trade Organization<br>(WTO) to temporarily waive certain parts of the Trade-Related Aspects of<br>Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement around COVID-19 medical<br>technologies. If the member countries of the WTO approve this temporary<br>waiver, it would help ensure production of sufficient quantities of<br>affordable COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments and vaccines, which would<br>increase the global supply of these goods, benefiting the global pandemic<br>effort.<br><br>Without the waiver, low- and middle-income countries don't have the ability<br>to manufacture vaccines, and will have to rely on pharmaceutical companies<br>and wealthy countries for charity, or go without access to lifesaving<br>medicines and technology.<br><br>Pharmaceutical companies have received unprecedented taxpayer funding to<br>help develop COVID-19 vaccines, and will still be well-paid for their<br>vaccines, even if this waiver passes.<br><br>The vast majority of countries in the world are supporting the motion, but<br>unfortunately, a few wealthy countries including Canada, the US, the UK are<br>not.<br><br>The petition, below, urges Canada to do the right thing and support the<br>motion so that every country will have timely and affordable access to<br>vaccines. The WTO will be dealing with this issue at a meeting on March 10.<br><br>Please consider signing this petition if you have not already done so.<br><br>Many thanks!<br><br>Mary<br><a href="https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3181" target="_blank">https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3181</a><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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