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Military personnel Born: Montmagny, Canada Branch/service: Canadian Army Prime Minister: Justin Trudeau Years of service: 1991–Present Education: Naval Assocation of Canada (Toronto) Awards: Order of Military Merit, Meritorious Service Cross, Canadian Forces’ Decoration Fortin graduated from the Royal Military College Saint-Jean with a science degree in 1991 and went on to hold a series of key appointments, including: leading a platoon with the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia between 1993-94; chief of staff of Task Force Kandahar and Joint Task Force-Afghanistan between 2009-10; deputy commanding general for operations in the U.S. Army at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington from 2015 to 2017; and, as director of operations at the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat within the Privy Council Office in 2017. Fortin also served as the commander of NATO’s Iraq mission between 2018-19 and most recently was the Chief of Staff for the Canadian Joint Operations Command. According to his military biography, Fortin and his spouse are from Montmagny, Que., and they have one daughter.
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Dany Fortin CMM MSC CD is a Canadian Armed Forces officer serving as a major general in the Canadian Army. He served as the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) vice president of logistics and operations, leading the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout from November 27, 2020 to May 14, 2021, when he left pending a military investigation. He has served in commanding roles in the War in Afghanistan and the ISIL insurgency in Iraq. He commanded the 1st Canadian Division Headquarters and also served in a foreign exchange billet as the Deputy Commanding General for I Corps of the United States Army. In November, 2020, Fortin was named vice-president of logistics and operations for PHAC (in a military role), assisting in the procurement and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada for the federal COVID-19 vaccine rollout. On May 14, 2021, the Department of National Defence announced that Fortin left the PHAC assignment pending a military investigation. According to a CTV News source, the incident being investigated by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service dates back to 1989, when Fortin allegedly exposed himself to a woman while he was a student at Royal Military College Saint-Jean. Fortin denied the allegation. On May 17, Fortin was replaced by Brigadier General Krista Brodie.
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