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Former NATO mission head to lead Canada’s coronavirus vaccine rollout
‘Majority’ of Canadians should be vaccinated against coronavirus by September: Trudeau Fortin most recently served as the chief of staff for the Canadian Joint Operations Command.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]But he was also commander of the NATO military training mission in Iraq from November 2018 until last fall.Fortin led the alliance’s training efforts aimed at professionalizing Iraq’s military in a time of massive internal unrest and the ever-present threat of retreating but still-plotting Islamic State militants.The announcement follows days of criticism of the Trudeau government’s vaccination strategy and uncertainty about when Canadians might have access to an eventual vaccine.