Emergency spending to deal with the COVID-19 crisis must not outlast the pain it's meant to salve, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has instructed Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a newly released mandate letter.
iPolitics By Kady O Malley. Published on Jan 17, 2021 4:00pm A vial of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine (Torstar file photo)
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares for another round of pre-sitting strategy sessions with his front-bench team which will continue through Monday and wrap up on Thursday, his office says he may be forced to adjust the timeline for the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout now underway after Pfizer revealed it must temporarily cut production to expand its facilities in Belgium.
Maj-Gen. Dany Fortin, whose job is to coordinate the federal side of the vaccine supply chain, acknowledged last week that “for the end of January and most of February, provinces will see a ‘significant’ hit to their vaccine deliveries,” the Star reported last week.
British Columbia's health minister says the reduction in shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to Canada will have a significant effect, but just in the immediate period.