When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his Rideau Cottage address on Wednesday, it will be the 65th time he has held a morning press conference since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in mid-March.
Within days of the declaration, the PM was using the daily addresses to announce federal government plans to roll out massive social and financial assistance programs, and to issue the latest round of public health advice.
Now, with the first wave of the novel coronavirus appearing to be largely on the decline, and economic reopening underway, the focus appears to be beginning to shift from emergency triage to conversations about cracks the pandemic has exposed in various systems and institutions.
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