Amir Attaran: Canada is mismanaging its most significant peacetime crisis in a century and the seeds of our failure are everywhere. Here are four things that must change.
Trudeau appears at a news conference outside Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on May 29, 2020 What does the COVID-19 endgame look like?
The answer is, “not much”. Many Canadians think we have because we are doing better than the United States—a country having no public health care, vocal COVID-19 deniers, and a president who recommends injecting bleach. The Americans are obviously not the right comparators. Better to compare Canada with other wealthy countries, especially confederations having federal-provincial complications like our own.
Now Australia’s reopening, confidently, and we are not. Through it, they suffered barely 100 dead. We are nearing 7,000 dead—which works out to a per capita death rate only a little better than Donald Trump’s United States.Let’s next talk about COVID-19 testing. Nobody disagrees that Canada needs more, faster testing.
I cannot exaggerate how dangerous such blindness is. Without complete, accurate, timely data Canada fights COVID-19 not by skating to where the virus’s puck is going, or even where it is now, but where it was several weeks ago.Currently, just three provinces—in order, Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta—are responsible for 94 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Canada. Their failure to bend the curve is threatening health in other provinces and imposing massive economic costs rivalling the Great Depression.
. Either the federal government becomes more significant, or it ends up tearing federation apart while mistakenly believing it is protecting it.
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