 As people know Canada has been a world leader on vaccinations and that's just part of what Canadians were able to do through this pandemic where we saw everyone from frontline health workers to community workers to individual Canadians stepping up during this pandemic to be there for each other to do the right things to get us through this and it has culminated of course in vaccinations as Canada is now among the world leaders in vaccination rates amongst eligible Canadians that is you know 12 and older. The government also all the orders of government have been there to support Canadians particularly on the federal side where we scrambled to deliver PPE we've scrambled to ensure that we have vaccines for everyone and we're also ensuring booster shots for the coming years as they become necessary listening to the expert advice that folks in in Nassie and other fields are going to be making on how we move forward but when we talk about the high vaccination rates of Canadians you know 82 85 87% in various jurisdictions of Canadians fully vaccinated it's always eligible Canadians because we know particularly those of us who are parents like I am of kids under 12 but not everyone can get vaccinated yet we have heard that Pfizer has now submitted for regulatory approval at Health Canada a pediatric vaccine for kids 5 to 11 this is great news I can assure you that Health Canada is going to be examining attentively that submission and even though I know parents are all going to be eager to get their kids vaccinated as quickly and as soon as possible I want people to be patient because Health Canada is going to be taking the time necessary to ensure that like all vaccines approved for use in Canada vaccines approved for kids 5 to 11 will be fully safe and effective it is extremely important that they go through all the full processes necessary so that every parent can have confidence when these vaccines do get approved that they will be safe for their children to keep us all safe to keep them safe to keep our communities and schools safe as we move forward therefore what I'm very pleased to be announcing today is that we have worked directly with Pfizer and shortly after the time comes for Health Canada to approve those vaccines for pediatric use we will receive millions of doses in Canada enough to get all kids under between 5 and 11 vaccinated as quickly as possible we will have the supply necessary to support every kid across the country from 5 to 11 with vaccinations as soon as possible after Health Canada approved it. It's a good news today Health Canada as you know is analyzing the data and doing the rigorous processes for the approval of the Pfizer vaccine for the 5 to 11 years and they will take the necessary time to ensure that they are safe and effective because all parents want their children to be safe but they do not want to take any risks either so you can know that if and when Health Canada will approve the use of Pfizer vaccine for the children it will be safe to do it for your children at the same time I can announce today that we signed an agreement with Pfizer so that when it is approved for use in Canada very shortly after we will receive enough doses in Canada to ensure the vaccination of all children in Canada from 5 to 11 it's a very good news for all parents and all children across the country because it's been a long time that we want to ensure that our children and the additional protection that the vaccination will give them as more than 80% of adults in Canada have already done a few weeks ago we made several promises regarding our priorities regarding the vaccination regarding the fight against the covid we delivered on our promise to ensure a mandatory vaccination mandate for trains and planes a mandatory vaccination mandate for the workers of the public function and today I'm happy to be able to confirm a third element of this promise that is the certification or the proof of uniform vaccination for international travel that will be available throughout the country we made a commitment to ensure that there is a national standard for a proof of vaccination certificate that will be issued by every province and territory so that people can travel domestically but particularly internationally and today I'm happy to confirm that all provinces and territories have confirmed that they will be moving forward with a standardized national proof of vaccination as of today so far we have Saskatchewan Ontario Quebec Nova Scotia Newfoundland and all three provinces all three territories Nunavut Northwest Territories and Yukon who already have put in use the national standard for proof of vaccination you can download it onto your phone you can print it out you can ask for a copy by mail if you don't have those capacities but you are now able to show proofs of vaccination immediately in all those provinces and all other provinces have agreed and are working hard to come online so that as Canadians look to start traveling again there will be a standardized proof of vaccination certificate that as we said we will be picking up the tab for at the federal level to ensure that all provinces are able to do it and we'll also move forward on our other commitments we made around vaccinations and safety and COVID which is moving forward on legislation to keep healthcare workers safe from intimidation and being hassled so we can end this pandemic and get back to the things we love it's a reminder as well as we move forward on all these measures for folks who still haven't yet gotten their full vaccinations please get yourself vaccinated it's the way we can all get back to the things we love avoid further lockdowns and make sure that our economy comes roaring back and we're keeping our most vulnerable as protected as possible croissance reprendre à travers l'économie mais on reconnaît qui encore des secteurs qui sont durement touché on voit par exemple l'industrie du tourisme les restaurateurs particulièrement dans les centres villes qui ont encore énormément de défis avec les implications de la COVID-19 et on a fait une promesse très directe aux canadiens qu'on allait être là pour les appuyer aussi longtemps que nécessaire mais qu'on allait aussi être là pour assurer une relance économique forte et rapide et donc je suis très très content de pouvoir passer la parole maintenant à la ministre Freeland pour partager les éléments des prochaines étapes de notre plan pour lutter contre la COVID-19 et appuyer les canadiens tout en facilitant une reprise économique rapide et forte