Conservative leadership candidate Roman Baber says if he became prime minister, his first order of business would be to fire Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam over her COVID-19 pandemic response.
Baber made the comments in an email addressed to Conservative Party members on May 17, saying that Tam “lost any credibility she had left” after she recommended that Canadians wear masks during sexual activity earlier in the pandemic on Sept. 2, 2020.
“As Prime Minister, I will fire Dr. Tam on my first day in office!” Baber said in the email.
Baber reiterated this point on social media on May 17.
“Rather than protect LTC [long-term care], build capacity & tender fair data, [Tam’s] policies resulted in 600,000 surgeries delayed, over a million cancer screens missed, overdose & mental health pandemic,” he wrote on Twitter….