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Peter Jaworski, a Canadian scholar, is associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and an adjunct professor at Virginia School of Law.

He said paid clinics could help Canada become more self-sufficient.

Jaworski said the U.S. supplies 65 to 68 per cent of the plasma used to manufacture therapies globally.

“Canada has been around 80 per cent dependent on plasma collected in the U.S. since at least 2012,” he said.

“We’ve depended on people who donate plasma in the U.S. to companies like Grifols, where they are paid for their plasma donation.”