With hopes that the COVID-19 vaccine would enable life to return to something resembling normalcy, Canada’s slow rollout, now exacerbated by shipment delays, is the subject of much scrutiny. “A lot of people … have begun to follow provincial and national politics more closely because of these developments,” says Allan Tupper, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia. A shipment of 208,650 doses of the Pfizer vaccine slated to arrive the week of Jan. 24 was cancelled, and the shipment of 366,000 expected to be delivered the week of Feb. 1 has been reduced to 79,000. The disruptions are due to renovations at Pfizer’s plant in Belgium. The delays were also top of the agenda as members of Parliament returned to the House of Commons on Jan. 25 after a month-long break, with Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole accusing the Liberals of not doing enough to ensure a stable supply …