Regardless of their immediate public health merits, it is surprising just how easily these provincial border checkpoints went up. More worrisome is how little pushback there has been from the prime…
It is hard to remember what it was like before time froze, but 2020 was already shaping up to be a very bad year on the national unity front. The post-election anger and alienation in the West was still on a slow boil, while the biggest story in February was the #ShutCanadaDown movement, the series of cross-country blockades and protests in support of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who were trying to stop the Coastal GasLink pipeline from pushing through their territory.
As things stand now, the Atlantic provinces have pretty much locked themselves off from the rest of the country, despite their heavy reliance on summer tourism. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have even mused about creating a two-province “bubble” with a common perimeter keeping the rest of Canada at bay.
Since mid-March, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a highly localized thing that has required a local response. The time for Ottawa to act broadly and in the national interest was in January or February, when strong decisive actions in areas of clear federal responsibility — closing the border, setting up quarantine, screening at the airports — could have been decisive.
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