Ottawa had a playbook for a coronavirus-like pandemic 14 years ago. What went wrong?

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A 2006 report co-written by Dr. Theresa Tam – now the face of Canada’s COVID-19 response – predicted our current situation, and the steps needed to get out of it, with eerie accuracy. But the actual response has been very different

 

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I think one of the problems are fairly late travel restrictions & consequent self-quarantine measures for homecomers from Wuhan in Canadian provinces. The reason for that could quite definitely have been a wish to coordinate with other G7 or even G20 economies. Live and learn.

dockaurG GTA voters happened.

dockaurG Political correctness

This isn't news, it's noise! Serves only as a dog-whistle for partisan trolls and erodes faith in people we need to support and count on. It's postmortem material when we measure our results versus comparative nations. covid19UK, Covid19usa or covid19Canada - let's compare

It’s quite evident they just shelved it and buried their heads in the sand!!

The federal government has not considered asymptotic spread in the modelling they quickly did after the provinces “UPSTAGED” them, and has NO CLUE how far it’s SPREAD because we don’t have enough TESTS...INCOMPETENCE KILLS!!!!!

PMJT.

Thank stephenharper!

We elected high school student council members instead of competent people

Trudeau and who he hired to work for the cabinets

Complacency and cost cutting.

Harper got elected.

Trudeau.

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