(Ottawa) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says COVID-19 vaccination will remain a top priority for the country in 2022.
Mr. Trudeau made his New Year’s greetings in a statement released Friday.
He says Canadians will have to “continue working together in 2022” if they are to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Prime Minister recalled that the country had to confront its “historical wrongs” after the discovery of anonymous graves and burial sites near former residential schools for Indigenous people.
He stressed that the year 2021 had been particularly trying for indigenous peoples. The government remains committed to helping all those affected by residential schools and the national tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA + people, he said.
Trudeau added that Canadians have also faced the consequences of climate change: unprecedented heat waves, forest fires and flooding.
“Building on the hard lessons we have learned over the past two years, we will end the fight against this pandemic and rebuild a stronger, fairer and more equitable Canada,” he pledged.