Former Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole is criticizing the World Health Organization (WHO) for approving “less-effective” COVID-19 vaccines produced in communist China while rejecting a made-in-Canada version due to the Canadian company’s ties to a major tobacco company. “The WHO has approved several less-effective emergency use vaccines funded by China, but is rejecting an innovative Canadian vaccine because of one of their investors…Unbelievable,” said the Tory MP on Twitter on March 25. O’Toole was responding to news that the WHO has refused to accept Medicago Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine because U.S.-Swiss tobacco company Philip Morris International is a shareholder of the Quebec vaccine maker. Medicago’s two-dose Covifenz vaccine was authorized by Health Canada in February for adults 18 to 64. In clinical trials, it was more than 70 percent effective at preventing COVID-19 infections and 100 percent effective against severe illness, prior to the Omicron wave. Medicago proceeded to submit an application …