Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he has full confidence that Canada's provinces will be able to handle the influx of COVID-19 vaccine doses arriving in the country in the weeks and months ahead. "The big lift we're going to face, as our vaccine deliveries shift to the millions, means the provinces will need to be ready." The early weeks of the vaccine rollout were marked by disagreements between Ottawa and the provinces over how quickly provinces were administering the doses they had received. Ottawa won't foot hotel quarantine billThe minister's comments come one day before the federal government's mandatory hotel quarantine for air travellers comes into effect. WATCH | Canadian student abroad on expiring visa seeks hotel quarantine exemption:Canadian student abroad on expiring visa wants quarantine hotel exemption CBC News Video 6:56 Gabby Boulding, a Canadian student in Edinburgh, is petitioning to exempt students living abroad on visas from hotel costs during quarantine in Canada.

Source: CBC News February 21, 2021 19:30 UTC