Rick Hillier’s double duty doesn’t pass the smell test

The Ontario government knows that the optics of their vaccine distribution guy moonlighting as an arms dealer will not sit well with the public. Nor should it.

Retired General Rick Hillier, who is leading Ontario’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort, has taken on additional responsibility as an adviser to a Canadian defence company.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 1, 2021

OTTAWA—From the outset, I wish to state that I have the utmost respect and admiration for retired General Rick Hillier. He is a natural leader; a charismatic public speaker and he earned the loyalty of those troops which he commanded. Hillier parlayed those attributes into a stellar military care...

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