On COVID, Conservatives are getting outflanked by Liberals

The vaccine debate is far from over, but it might be time for the opposition to assess their strategy and watch more carefully for government slights of hand.

Conservative health critic Michelle Rempel Garner, Leader Erin O'Toole, and Deputy Leader Candice Bergen are pictured at a press conference on Oct. 22. Conservatives will now move, as they have, to critiquing the pace of distribution and its methods of allocation. The latter has all sorts of challenges around the stoking of division while trying to act responsibly in a crisis, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

December 9, 2020

OTTAWA—On Dec. 8, history was made as Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother from Northern Ireland became the first person in the world, outside of a clinical trial, to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech coronavirus vaccine. After nearly nine long months of living with COVID-19, this is reason for al...

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