CALL IN THE ARMY TO ADMINISTER VACCINES, SINGH SUGGESTS

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling for a quicker, clearer vaccination plan that would see the military deployed across the country to speed provincial COVID-19 inoculation efforts. The federal government should engage military personnel along with more medical and nursing students and retired health-care workers, Singh said Tuesday. “The provinces haven't specially asked for that,” Singh acknowledged. “But we've got the capacity to use the military, set up sites in federal facilities and federal buildings across the country. There seems to be this notion that, `OK, we get the supply, then it's up to the provinces to deliver it.' And I don't buy that.” But chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam, asked about the proposal Tuesday, said the number of vaccination sites and staff is not a hurdle.