Canadian Armed Forces are the best in the world, but shouldn’t be at forefront of the vaccine team

As much as it seems to reassure us to have a uniformed soldier handing out vaccines, it would make more sense if that same delivery were made by a guy in a Purolator jacket.

Major-General Dany Fortin will be commanding the Canadian military response team for the vaccine rollout, but other than disciplined leadership, what exactly is he contributing to the vaccine distribution task force, asks Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

December 7, 2020

OTTAWA—Last week, it was announced that the Canadian military has received formal orders to participate in planning the nationwide distribution of the COVID-19 vaccinations. In an interview with the Canadian Press, Chief of Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance admitted that long before the order ...

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