Trudeau caught lying to Canadians about vaccines

Justin Trudeau has lied many times it’s difficult to count them all. But his latest lie will have perhaps the most serious consequences for Canadians.

Previously, Trudeau had talked about how Canada would be "first in line" for vaccines and boasted of Canada’s large portfolio of various vaccines. However, it turns out Trudeau was talking about something he clearly understood little about.

As we are now learning, Canadians face the prospect of watching billions of people get vaccines before we do. Canadians could spend months watching as vaccines are rolled out in the United States, the UK, Mexico, India, Germany, France, and many other countries.

This is in large part because Canada hasn’t signed any deals to manufacture vaccines here.

Note, this is not the same as saying Canada doesn’t have domestic manufacturing capacity. We do. We have facilities that could manufacture vaccines.

However, unlike many other countries, the deals we signed with vaccine producers did not include any provisions for manufacturing the vaccine in Canadian facilities. Simply put, the government had potential domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity that could have been used.

It wasn’t. They failed. They signed deals that didn’t use that capacity, meaning Canada will be left behind many other countries:

"Currently, Ottawa says 3 million Canadians might be vaccinated by March 2021—and they call that "optimistic."

The USA intends to vaccinate 20 million by the end of this year.

I don’t think Canadians will be happy about being left behind,” said Amir Attaran professor of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa

Of course, rather than take responsibility for their failure, Trudeau has chosen to lie to Canadians again and again.

The first lie was, as mentioned above, that we would be at the front of the line.

The second lie was Trudeau’s claim that Canada doesn’t have domestic manufacturing capacity for vaccines.

And the third lie was when he blamed Harper for it.

I won’t even really get into that one, because it is so obviously pathetic and weak to blame someone else after five years in office, especially when the blame is being falsely applied.

Canada could have manufactured vaccines here, and could have ensured that our own citizens weren’t left behind others.

Simply put, the government failed to do that.

It’s one of many federal failures, including the refusal to protect the border and ports of entry at the beginning of the pandemic, when it could have been mitigated.

Over and over again, the Liberals have failed, and blaming others only compounds that failure.