Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada’s stockpile of vaccines isn’t large enough. Nor are Canadians’ reserves of patience, as it turns out.

This is the week when the flagging supply of COVID vaccines met the flagging, pandemic-weary spirit of the Canadian public — and Justin Trudeau’s support has joined the downward spiral.

A new Abacus Data poll confirms that Trudeau and his government are getting the blame for the vaccines that aren’t arriving quickly enough and the prime minister now has serious damage control to do along with ongoing crisis management.

It’s a scientific principle that when a vacuum is created, other forces rush to fill it. The same applies to politics, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is paying the price.

It’s now becoming increasingly clear that as the world mobilizes to immunize itself against COVID-19, Canada is falling seriously behind. At a time when more than half of Israelis have gotten the jab, Canada has only two per cent of its population vaccinated. Recent analysis by The Economist found that while virtually all of Europe will be fully vaccinated by the end of this year, the earliest Canada can hope for is mid-2022. And in one of the sharpest rebukes to Canada’s pandemic performance yet, the federal government has tapped into a global vaccine-sharing pool initially meant for developing nations.

This week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced two deals designed to produce COVID-19 vaccines on Canadian soil by the end of the year. But even that timeline — which won’t see Canadian-produced vaccines until well after the government’s self-imposed deadline of having enough doses to vaccinate the entire population by September — is unlikely to be met, according to an expert with many years’ experience in the industry.

When will Canadians get vaccines delivered? When will we be able to get shots into arms?

The truth is the answers to these questions are getting murkier by the day despite assurances from the Trudeau government that European export controls won’t affect us and despite an announcement that vaccines will be made in Canada.