Tory MP Says Ottawa ‘Lobbying’ UN to Include Climate Change as Health Threat in Pandemic Treaty

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis is questioning the federal government’s bid to have the World Health Organization (WHO) include climate change in its definition of a pandemic emergency. “As countries prepare to finalize the WHO Global Pandemic Accord in May, the Liberals have been lobbying the WHO to include climate change in the definition of a pandemic emergency,” Ms. Lewis said in a Jan. 8 post on X (formerly Twitter). In her post, Ms. Lewis included an undated excerpt in a table format from a government response she received after filing an access to information request. The excerpt on the left-hand side mentions a WHO Global Pandemic Accord objective seeking to establish “appropriate governance arrangements to address and support pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, rooted in the WHO Constitution.”...