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By iPolitics. Published on May 17, 2021 5:51pm
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Ottawa plans to announce who will replace Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin as the head of Canada’s vaccine rollout as soon as Monday, according to two government sources. The sources, who iPolitics assured it wouldn’t name in order for them to share information they otherwise wouldn’t be able to, are well-connected to the decision about who will takeover for Fortin, the rollout’s original logistics’ operator and planner, who stepped down Friday night, “pending the results of a military investigation,” as the Department of National Defence said in a press release.