It should never have happened the way it did. When we should have been preparing for an epidemic and protecting Canadians, our government sat on its hands, missed obvious signals that all was not well and wasted 75 days assuring us that Canada faced a low risk. This is the first look at a series of blunders by our federal government: How Canada’s world-class pandemic alert system failed - ‘Without early warning you can’t have early response’ Grant Robertson -- Globe and Mail -- July 25, 2020 On the morning of Dec. 31, as word of a troubling new outbreak in China began to reverberate around the world, in news reports and on social media, a group of analysts inside the federal government and their bosses were caught completely off guard. The virus had been festering in China for weeks, possibly months, but the Public Health Agency of Canada appeared to know nothing about it – which was unusual because the government had a team of highly specialized doctors and epidem...
A discussion on political, economic and social issues in British Columbia, and Canada