Twenty-two Indigenous police services across Quebec, including the Kahnawake Peacekeepers, are taking the federal public safety ministry to task for discrimination.
Another 100 are expected to get a dose on Friday, and 50 the day after. “And then, come next Monday, we’ll be in full swing,” said Public Safety Commissioner Lloyd Phillips, who also appeared in the video. “We are at the beginning of the end with these vaccines,” he said, adding that health officials are aiming to vaccinate at least 80 per cent of the community, with another shipment of Moderna vaccines arriving next week. “If we could get 100 per cent, that would be even better.” Public health staff and elders held a traditional tobacco-burning ceremony to receive the 242 doses that arrived at the centre Thursday.