As political variants of concern rise, Trudeau may yet pay the price for long-time vaccine production failures

With the U.S. pounding on the doors and some Canadians becoming increasingly impatient, this longstanding national shortcoming has the potential to emerge as much more of a political risk factor for the Trudeau government.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be about to belatedly pay the price for his and other Canadian leaders’ failure over several decades to recognize the danger of large-scale influenza outbreaks and the need to establish domestic pandemic defences, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

June 23, 2021

OTTAWA—Despite an up-and-down performance combatting COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has generally been given okay marks by the public and weathered 16 months of the crisis in fairly good shape in terms of the Liberals’ public standing. But the political variants of concern are mounting...

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