Doug Ford asks Joe Biden for vaccines Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here to get it delivered weekday mornings. Ontario Premier Doug Ford had some friendly advice for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's dealings with Pfizer executives as Canada faces a brief—but sudden—decline in vaccine deliveries. "I'd be up that guy's ying-yang," said the premier, whose penchant for folksy one-liners was not in short supply yesterday. Canada should be "on [Pfizer people] like a blanket," and "outside that guys house, every time he moved." Ford also pleaded with incoming U.S. President Joe Biden to divert one million doses to Ontarians. Maclean's Ottawa bureau chief Shannon Proudfoot pleaded for sanity. At an earlier federal press conference, Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin revealed that Canada would be receiving even fewer Pfizer doses next week—that is to say, none at all. Procurement Minister Anita Anand insisted her government is doing everything it can to ratchet up Pfizer deliveries. "I spent the weekend on the phone with Pfizer executives and my team," she said. "We reiterated firmly the importance for Canada to return to our regular delivery schedule as soon as possible." A reporter asked why some European countries appear less affected by Pfizer delays. "I insisted on equitable treatment in terms of global supply reductions that it announced," replied Anand. "Pfizer assured me and Canada of equitable treatment." Trudeau had held his own press conference minutes before Fortin and Anand took the floor. He neglected to mention the coming halt in deliveries, preferring instead to quip about how German chancellor Angela Merkel apparently complained to him that reporters in her own country kept asking her why Canada was better at delivering vaccines. At noon today, Biden becomes U.S. president. Maclean's will offer all the analysis you expect as the day unfolds, but we'll start with some pregame appetizers. Why does Inauguration Day take place on Jan. 20? The festivities used to fall on the 4th of March, but that all changed in 1933. And even the shortened lame-duck interregnum between administrations—which stretches from early November all the way to the new year—might be too long. Aaron Hutchins explains the reason for the extended gap. Where are they now? Donald Trump oversaw 14 cabinet resignations—some voluntary, others forced—in four years. And his inner circle of senior advisers resembled a revolving door. Aaron Hutchins revisits a photo of Trump's inauguration and explains what happened next to some of those who stood closest to the dais on Jan. 20, 2017. Spoiler: It didn't end well. Patricia Treble found what she thinks is the real reason Trump doesn't want to attend Biden's inauguration: the outgoing president is far shorter than he often claims and a side-by-side photo would prove it. Trump says he measures 6'3, substantially taller than Biden's intensely precise measurement of 5'11.65. Years of photo evidence debunk his exaggeration. It's Joe Biden's world now. Can he fix it? As America gets used to an oval office without Donald Trump, the new president will have his hands full rebuilding the republic's crumbling trust in its own democratic institutions. But as Terry Glavin writes in Maclean's, Biden has pledged to eventually turn his attention to the rest of the world. (On his way out, secretary of state Mike Pompeo tweeted that "multiculturalism" is "not who America is." So there's work to be done.) Biden’s greater task involves the revival of global democratic alliances and rehabilitating democracy’s stature in the world as the most enlightened way to order human affairs. Clear majorities in the United States and Western Europe now say they’re dissatisfied with democracy, which is now in its 15th year of global retreat. And the United States is indispensable to democracy’s global revival, whether anybody likes it or not. Congratulations! NDP MP Laurel Collins announced that she and her partner, James, will be "welcoming a little one into the world." Collins credited New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who "paved the way for new moms in politics. There's no reason why women starting a family should be barred from these challenging & meaningful roles." Collins, who's due at the end of April, pledged to run for re-election even in the case of a spring election. Nom-nom-nom: The Department of National Defence posted a tender notice for "packaged sandwiches" to feed the Edmonton Garrison and CFB Wainwright. Yes, the military knows exactly which ingredients should be on the sammies. A spreadsheet attached to the callout lists 14 menu items. The lumberjack sub is a 10-inch submarine bun with shaved ham and salami, processed cheese and mustard or margarine. —Nick Taylor-Vaisey | 