Share this Story: Fortin needed to be fired to protect Canadians' confidence in vaccine rollout: government lawyersFortin needed to be fired to protect Canadians' confidence in vaccine rollout: government lawyers A lawyer said that the decision to suddenly remove Fortin from his role in mid-May was due to a series of sudden developments in the sexual misconduct investigation Photo by Justin Tang/The Canadian Press/FileArticle content OTTAWA – Federal government lawyers say that Canada’s former head of vaccine logistics Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin needed to be removed from the job to protect Canadians’ confidence in the vaccine rollout as well as the alleged victim in his sexual misconduct investigation. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content “The vaccine rollout is critical to the public health of all Canadians, and as such no loss of confidence in the uniformed leader of the vaccine rollout could be tolerated during the COVID-19 global pandemic,” Attorney General of Canada lawyer Helen Gray said Wednesday. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

Source: National Post September 29, 2021 22:30 UTC