Wow, Canada Really Has A Handle On This Coronavirus Screw-Up

Consider who is at the helm and ask one's self: "Who could have done a far worse job? An amoeba? No, an amoeba has the ability to discern and doesn't troll for Chinese money.":

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made inaccurate claims in boasting of cabinet’s pandemic response, according to internal emails. “Oh dear,” wrote one political aide. Staff in the Department of Public Works suggested they “try and talk around it” in case anyone noticed: “Maybe we can say — “

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The Department of Health was so poorly prepared for the outbreak of the pandemic it had to send masks to Florida for safety testing, say internal records. And the number of ventilators stored in a $300 million national stockpile was only one percent of what was needed: “It’s an embarrassment to this country.”

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Chinese-Canadians were alert to the pandemic more than a month before the Public Health Agency, the Commons public safety committee was told yesterday. One MP said he first learned of the coronavirus risk not from any federal agency, but organizers of a Chinese-Canadian fundraiser in his constituency: “We weren’t even calling it Covid-19 at the time.”

The government did not have shut down the economy. It chose to and will likely be thanked for it no matter how disastrous the outcome:

What is already clear is that the federal government’s COVID response was not the pre-ordained consequence of the pandemic – it was a political choice.

A report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development shows Canada was an outlier among its peers when it came to income support.

As the economy contracted 10 per cent in the second quarter, the federal government’s transfers helped to increase household income in this country by 11 per cent. Meanwhile, incomes in other developed countries, including the U.K., France and Germany declined.

More fool the leaders in those countries, one supposes. Trudeau has shown that governments can buy the political affections of their voters at minimal cost in the short run.

There is a price tag, of course, but this prime minister will be long gone by the time the bill comes due.

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During one three month period last year, young and middle-aged households generally gained around $3,000 more through support measures, particularly the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), than they lost in earnings. At the same time, middle-income earners in the second-lowest quintile earned additional income at roughly $2,500.

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Parliament’s Budget Officer yesterday said “as a taxpayer” he hopes the Canada Revenue Agency recovers pandemic cheques claimed by Canadians who didn’t need the money. The Agency has identified 440,000 claims flagged for investigation: “It makes you wonder.”

Predictably, the food at the rape hotels is terrible:

Travellers have also shared photos of the meals they received during their stay. Complaints include cold and stale food, as well as wrong the dietary food such as chicken being served to vegetarian people.

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 A video from the Sheraton Dorval hotel near Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport shows the room of two women being breached from the outside after the hotel removed the locks on the doors of patrons for "emergency" purposes.