LILLEY: Trudeau tries to spin his government's lack of detail on vaccines - Toronto Sun

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So, into this murky situation waltzed Anita Anand, Trudeau’s minister of public services and procurement.

“I wish to address some misinformation,” Anand said.

She said Canada was among the first countries to sign with Moderna, the fourth to sign with Pfizer and that our vaccination program was second to none.

OK, but when we will get the vaccine is still up in the air.

“It is not possible to circle a single date on a calendar,” Anand said in response to a reporter’s question.

The fact is, no one is asking for “a single date on a calendar.” People are looking for a general timeline.

The provinces, which need to distribute the vaccine, need to be able to plan.

“The delivery window is within the first quarter of 2021,” Anand said.

That is what media outlets have been reporting, the government’s words, repeated over and over again. Sometime in the first three months of 2021 we will get, we hope, enough doses to vaccinate 3 million Canadians, or 8% of the population.

By September, Trudeau says that “if all goes according to plan,” we will have somewhere between 51% and 100% of the country vaccinated.

The Conservatives say this puts Canada at the back of the line. A touch of hyperbole perhaps, but finishing months after the United States, the U.K. and other allies have wrapped up their vaccination program does leave Canada behind others.

Trudeau’s Liberals should worry less about denouncing the media for what they now call “misinformation” and spend more time nailing down the details of their plan.

That’s what Canadians need, not lectures.

blilley@postmedia.com

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