Getting rid of the evidence.

Health Canada has directed provinces to withdraw and destroy remaining supplies of last year's COVID-19 vaccines while it works to authorize updated shots, which is expected to happen in October, according to Ontario’s health ministry.

A notice posted on the federal government’s immunization guide says vaccines aimed at Omicron variant XBB.1.5 is no longer available in Canada. Updated shots, made to target the now-dominant JN.1 or KP.2 strains are expected to get the green light “in the coming weeks.” – Source

The specifics of what Canada paid for the doses it pre-purchased have been hard to come by. The 2021 budget released in April said the total was somewhere around $9 billion.

The only cost per dose revealed so far was released by accident when the price for the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine was accidentally left in an email included in a package of documents released to the health committee. That email said Canada would pay $8.18 per dose of AstraZeneca, which would amount to $163 million for the 20 million doses ordered. – Source

MPs on the House of Commons health committee voted Wednesday to launch a study into the more than $300 million the Liberal government paid to a now-shuttered Quebec-based pharmaceutical company whose COVID-19 vaccine never made it to market. – Source

Altogether, 107,216,820 vaccine doses have been administered as of June 30, 2024.