We should have had a national rollout vaccine strategy

So, we are languishing on the vaccination rollout and medical doctors who are working in intensive care units filled with COVID carriers are not even allowed to get the second vaccine, which has greater protection for variant mutations. What is wrong with that picture?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured holding this year's federal budget document on Monday, April 19, 2021. Ontario’s COVID meltdown overshadowed a national budget rollout that should have put smiles on everyone’s faces, writes Sheila Copps.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s tears failed to dampen the unprecedented spike in his unpopularity. His mea culpa, offered while in isolation at his late mother’s home in Etobicoke, was designed to let people know that their pain was his pain. But nobody was listening. The government’s decision ...

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