Winnipeg Free Press
By: Dylan Robertson
Manitoba NDP MP Niki Ashton says the federal government should distribute the COVID-19 vaccines directly to Indigenous communities. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is rejecting an NDP demand to overstep the provinces and dispatch COVID-19 vaccines directly to Indigenous communities.
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is rejecting an NDP demand to overstep the provinces and dispatch COVID-19 vaccines directly to Indigenous communities.
"We need to see a plan now," NDP MP Niki Ashton told reporters Monday. "We need to ensure that there is no patchwork approach to delivering the vaccine to Indigenous communities."