Public Health Agency of Canada Budgets $17.6 Million for COVID Vaccine Passport Program Until 2025: Memo

Public Health Agency of Canada Budgets $17.6 Million for COVID Vaccine Passport Program Until 2025: Memo
A customer’s COVID-19 QR code is scanned at a restaurant in Montreal on Sept. 1, 2021, as the Quebec government’s COVID-19 vaccine passport comes into effect. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) budgeted millions for a vaccine passport program until fiscal 2024–2025, with a Department of Health memo saying the funding was needed to support federal public health measures “as needed going forward.”

“The expected result would be that Canadians have continued access to the Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination credentials to facilitate mobility in the context of international travel, including for ongoing proof of vaccination requirements at international borders,” the memo dated March 23 said, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.