Winnipeg Free Press By: Carol Sanders | Posted: 7:30 PM CST Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 Last Modified: 9:35 AM CST Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 | Updates Problems with the province's vaccine rollout and its handling of the COVID-19 crisis could've been prevented, said Chuck Sanderson, who ran Manitoba's Emergency Measures Organization for 11 years before retiring. He said there's a "fatal flaw" in it. Problems with the province's vaccine rollout and its handling of the COVID-19 crisis could've been prevented, said Chuck Sanderson, who ran Manitoba's Emergency Measures Organization for 11 years before retiring. He said there's a "fatal flaw" in it. "They tasked all the planning to an already exhausted health department," he said. "They're not equipped to be emergency managers." The Emergency Measures Act requires that EMO oversees all aspects of preparedness in the province as well as manage, direct and co-ordinate the response of all departments to a disaster.