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House Hansard - 44

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 23, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 44 - Mar/23/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • Mar/23/22 2:43:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to answer this question. This gives me the opportunity to remind the House of the $72 billion we invested during the COVID‑19 pandemic to support the health and safety of all Canadians, including, of course, Quebeckers, the $45 billion in Canada health transfers that will begin to flow in just a few days, the $4 billion announced last year to deal with all kinds of delays, including surgeries and diagnostic tests, as well as the $5 billion invested in recent years. If anyone has more questions, I have more answers.
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Context: House Hansard - 44 - Mar/23/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • Mar/23/22 2:45:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc is calling for transfers, and we are sending them. In the last budget, we announced $3 billion to support the health and dignity of our seniors in long-term care centres in Quebec, $1 billion to help the provinces and territories implement vaccination programs over the past few months, and another $300 million to help pay for the vaccine passport system that they used quite successfully over the past few months. If I may, I will provide more answers afterward.
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Context: House Hansard - 44 - Mar/23/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • Mar/23/22 3:02:22 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to thank the 30 million Canadians who got vaccinated last year, when thousands of health care workers administered 81 million doses to people who made the effort to go out and get vaccinated to protect everyone around them. We should be thanking them every day. We would love to declare that COVID‑19 is over, like some Conservative members are doing today by choosing not to wear a mask, but it is not up to politicians to decide when COVID‑19 is over.
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Context: House Hansard - 44 - Mar/23/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • Mar/23/22 3:03:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I give congratulations and thanks to Canadians. Let me point to one more number: 135,000. That is the number of avoidable deaths that we saw in the United States over the last few months. They would have been avoided if Americans had done as well as we did in Canada, which is to vaccinate everywhere. There were 135,000 people who died in the U.S. because of not being vaccinated as we did in Canada. It is good to again signal our gratefulness to all those Canadians who did the right thing.
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Context: House Hansard - 44 - Mar/23/22
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Health, Lib.)
  • Mar/23/22 3:05:02 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, since I like numbers and since I believe the opposition also likes science and numbers, let me quote two more: 1,600 and $4 billion. The fact that we had vaccination mandates at both federal and provincial levels in the last few months made Canadians avoid 1,600 deaths. There are 1,600 people who are now alive, living with their families, enjoying time with their friends, working and just living, and $4 billion of costs were averted because of that.
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