Memo to Trudeau: What Canadians need to hear during the outbreak - Macleans.ca

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Andrew MacDougall: Ottawa needs to lead and that means daily information from experts, radical candour and no more spin from cabinet ministers

Trudeau emerges from Rideau Cottage to hold a news conference in Ottawa, on March 13, 2020

Which is a shame, really, because the stakes couldn’t possibly be higher. Canadians are being infected by a deadly new virus. There has been one death and there will almost certainly be more. The country’s borders remain open, but the nation’s border service seemed—until this morning—pretty relaxed about reminding people of their public health responsibilities upon their return to Canada. In other words, more clearly needs doing.

Having played a minor supporting role during the last crisis response to a pandemic sweeping Canada , I know how hard it is to get it right in these scenarios. As someone who sat through hours of Ministerial prep for press conferences and dozens of issues management meetings about vaccine supply , I have sympathy for the stress being placed on those in the system right now. It is real, and it is terrifying. Lives are at stake.

 

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A whining and unhelpful rant from someone I will choose not to read again.

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Come out of hiding. Canadians need daily PMJT addressing the nation telling us to stop panicking & to stop binge buying. Please start using an adult voice not a shakespearean soliloquy word salad from some apocalypse movie trailer voiceover. Let ministers make the announcements

The U.S. is not doing enough to prevent infection. Please, for the sake of every Canadian, SHUT THE BORDER TO AMERICANS!

You mean they need to do what Trump has been doing for weeks?

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