A member of the Protect Our Province BC coalition wonders what the NDP government was really trying to achieve with the Dec. 2-released report.
The COVID-19 Lessons Learned Review on the government’s response to the pandemic provided more confusion than clarity, says a retired emergency room physician.
The report was delivered Sept. 23 to government, but not released until a Friday afternoon the week after the last Question Period of the fall session. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth participated in a short-notice conference call with reporters, who only had 43 minutes to read the 144 pages. The government tends to provide lengthy reports on an embargoed basis with a pre-announcement briefing with officials. But that did not happen in this case.
The authors said B.C. got an “all of government response” to the outbreak in early 2020, when Filiatrault said the province really needed an “all of society response.” She called the response paternalistic, lacking transparency and goal-setting. The report found that the key agencies, Ministry of Health, Office of the Provincial Health Officer, Government Communications and Public Engagement, and Emergency Management BC, did not have a dynamic, comprehensive communications strategy.
The closest the report got to hearing from people who may have been directly affected was a survey through the government’s online polling platform. The authors, however, used leading questions and claimed the 15,000 responses, many negative, weren’t representative of public opinion.
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