Party Lines

A political booster shot


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They did it — just like that, Health Canada approved the Pfizer vaccine before even the U.S. did, becoming the third country to give it the green light. But this is hardly the end of the road. Now comes the transportation, the distribution, the getting needles into arms… and while the feds got to announce the good news this week, it’s the provinces who’ll be taking on a lot of the work from here. Elamin and Rosie dive into what this week’s vaccine approval means for the Liberal government, the premiers, and the opposition Conservatives, who’ve been pushing back hard on the government’s vaccine rollout plan. And speaking of premiers: the two also look at Thursday’s big meeting between the Prime Minister and the provinces. Premiers are lining up a pretty big ask, in demanding an increase to federal health transfers — will Ottawa pony up?
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