Last week, Canada’s auditor general reported the Public Health Agency of Canada was not prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic “because it ignored internal audits that found serious gaps in the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile.” The agency’s management failed to address “long-standing issues” in how medical supplies are managed. This led to problems supplying the country with crucial goods and “inadequate inventory control” with little sense of how much PPE would be required if a pandemic hit. Even the Daily Beast confessed the vaccine rollout up north did not go well. As of today in the U.S., almost two in three adults have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, compared to roughly half of Canadians; but fewer than 10% of Canucks have received a second. Almost 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border, so they’re not hard to reach.