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06/09/2021 10:00 AM EDT
Welcome to Corridors. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau steps back into the real world this week after months of sticking close to home. Andy Blatchford talked to insiders about what Canada wants at the G-7 summit. Zi-Ann Lum reports on Canada’s latest reckoning. Nick Taylor-Vaisey previews the wind down of Parliament, plus we have the latest on the Canada-U.S. border.
DRIVING THE WEEK
President Joe Biden speaks after holding a virtual meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 23. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo
THE BIDEN-TRUDEAU REUNION The PM and the president will meet in person this week for the first time since Biden was elected. Although they’ve made the best of video split-screens and have a bilateral road map to prove it we all know it’s hard to beat real life face time.
We’ve all seen or heard about it by now India collectively struggling to breathe under the latest crushing wave of COVID-19. Sons and daughters running between hospitals, trying to find a bed for a sick parent. Family members taking to social media to find an oxygen tank as a loved one gasps for breath. Orphaned children left behind and now at risk of trafficking. While most of us have seen it in the news, many of us in Canada have heard the painful stories directly from Indian family members and friends.
The exponential increase in COVID-19 cases in India – a country representing almost one fifth of the planet’s population – is alarming. In the past two months, the number of new cases grew from around 18,000 to more than 410,000 per day. In the past 24 hours, India registered about half of all new COVID-19 cases worldwide. There are significant risks of further virus mutation and global spread.
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The devastating situation in India is our newest reminder that we need global cooperation to defeat COVID-19.
Despite producing most of the world’s COVID-19 vaccines, India is facing a crushing third wave; the threat of additional variants looms. The scope of this surge is emerging as a global humanitarian crisis.
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The humanitarian community has been sounding the alarm on vaccine equity for months. Humanitarian crises were on the rise before the pandemic, diverting resources from other long-term initiatives. Now the United Nations estimates that 235 million people in the world’s most fragile humanitarian settings across 56 countries are at risk of being overlooked by government-led vaccination activities.
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Humanitarian groups in Canada are expressing their disappointment with the federal budget presented by the minority Liberal government, saying it is “a missed opportunity for Canada’s global engagement” and limits Ottawa’s ability to play a “meaningful long-term role” in a post-pandemic global recovery.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled on Monday $101.4 billion in new spending in the first federal budget in two years.
The 739-page document commits up to $1.4 billion over five years in international assistance to “support developing countries and vulnerable populations respond to this crisis and to meet growing humanitarian needs around the world.”