Now this story I’ve got mixed feelings about, it appears that about $1 billion worth of unused COVID-19 vaccines in Canada are set to expire by the end of 2022 due to an excess supply previously acquired by the federal government, wrote Auditor General Karen Hogan in a performance audit tabled today in the House of Commons.

“We found that the Public Health Agency of Canada was unsuccessful in its efforts to minimize vaccine wastage,” Hogan’s office wrote in the performance audit, titled “Report 9: COVID-19 Vaccines,” and tabled on Dec. 6.

“The agency had a surplus of vaccine doses resulting from the obligation to buy doses as specified in advance purchase agreements and the purchase of optional doses.”

Okay a few points I want to emphasize, first off, we’re talking a Billion with B folks of yours & mine tax dollars being flushed down the toilet. Next, I find it hilarious Karen that somehow you expected a government agency to do anything efficiently such as minimizing vaccine wastage. Now I get that someone though it would be a good idea to stockpile doses in advance, but couldn’t a clause have been put in that allowed the ability to adjust and modify based on demand?

The auditor general also said the public health agency’s procurement of enough vaccines for the Canadian public took too long and added that it had “delays in implementing a vaccine management information technology system.”

“This finding matters because vaccine wastage results in a financial cost to Canadians,” read the audit. Ya think after all it’s a billion dollars.

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told reporters on Parliament Hill today that the government’s vaccine procurement strategy was “very successful” despite the surplus.

Very successful, of course it could have been two billion dollars wasted right, but thanks to you and you your crack team taxpayers are only going to have to eat a billion. I got an idea, maybe we could simply split that billion between you and your buddies Jean-Yves who forced Canadians to get injected. I’m guessing if that were the case though, “very successful” isn’t how he would define things.

“Canada’s overall COVID-19 immunization strategy has been a success,” Duclos said on Dec. 6, while acknowledging that “improvements can and should always be made.”

Duclos also said a total of 10.8 million doses of COVID vaccines have been either destroyed or have expired in Canada to date.

Minister of Public Services and Procurement Helena Jaczek said that “Canada’s vaccine procurement was both effective and efficient.”

Well at least she didn’t’ say “safe and effective” huh?

“There was care taken [and] due diligence in the handling of the contracts,” she told Parliament Hill reporters on Dec. 6.

International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan said that the federal government is looking to return a large number of unused vaccines to a global vaccine-sharing initiative known as COVAX, from which Canada previously obtained some of its COVID vaccine supply.

“We’ve been continually assessing which each country’s needs have been,” Sajjan said. “So every nation is making a request through COVAX for what those needs are.”
Yeah, I’m sure given what big pharma has now admitted as well as what we’re learning every day, there’s a huge lineup of nations wanting to get those “safe & effective” pharmaceutical interventions Harjit, in fact I think I hear your phone ringing now!

And you’ll be further shocked to learn that Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk also found a large number of unused COVID vaccines within the province in her annual report, released on Nov. 30.

Lysyk said that the Ontario government wasted 38 percent of its available vaccine doses between February and June 2022 by overestimating the number that would be needed for administering boosters. To be fair though, given government track record 38% is a success usually they’re good for wasting at least 50% of every tax dollar.

In total, Lysyk found that the province wasted 3.4 million doses of COVID vaccines. She also reported a large number of wasted personal protective equipment (PPE) across Ontario—totalling $66 million in value—after it was found to be damaged, expired, or obsolete.
Kinda like our political leaders huh?

In closing like I said in the beginning I’ve got mixed feeling about this story, on the one hand I’m not thrilled about wasting tax dollars, I’m okay when the alternative is far worse. Those doses could have been administered!