Maj.-Gen. Fortin's appeal of decision around reinstatement to vaccine task force to go ahead

An appeal by Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin concerning a bid to have himself reinstated as the head of Canada’s vaccine rollout task force will go ahead, after a Federal Court of Appeal judge adjourned a government motion to quash it.

The government, represented by the attorney general, had sought to cut short Fortin’s appeal, arguing it was “moot” —  that the role he once held no longer exists.

The Federal Court of Canada ruled in October of last year that Fortin should use the military grievance process to make his case, but his legal team appealed the ruling later that month. 

Fortin’s legal team has