Premier Doug Ford is in disbelief over a pilot project to vaccinate inmates at federal prisons as early as Friday.
Ford says you are giving them the COVID-19 vaccine before other priority groups.
“How do you square this? How do you put them ahead of long-term care patients. How do you put them in front of all the most vulnerable. We are scrapping every vaccine we can get.”
Ford says “I still can’t believe that it’s going to happen. So I encourage the federal government. I encourage the Prime Minister. Stop it! It is not good, not good at all, to give the most dangerous criminals in our country vaccines over the most vulnerable.”
He adds “Whoever the minister is in charge of that has dropped the ball majorly. We all make mistakes, I make mistakes, but let’s correct it. Let’s not give the most dangerous criminals in our country the vaccine before we give it to our long-term care patients and most vulnerable.”
The provincial government doesn’t seem in any hurry to vaccinate people who are in Ontario’s correctional facilities.
Solicitor General Sylvia Jones says their first priority remains long-term care facilities.
Jones says “As we continue to vaccinate. Certainly group homes, homes that have developmental disability, adults and children and congregate living like our corrections facilities will be in the queue, but right now our priority continues to be long-term care residents.”
