For lack of imagination and will, an entire country relied on people so inept and corrupt that they could only exist in a banana republic. The result was a year of house arrest followed by economic ruin and death of the vulnerable.
But don't take my word for it:
Canada's chief public health officer Theresa Tam described COVID-19 as “low-risk” up until a few days before internal Trudeau government emails discussed the “accelerating" situation in Canada compared to China.
COVID-19 was “mostly under control in China, but accelerating in Canada” according to a March 20, 2020 email sent from Privy Council Office staffer David Hamilton.
In the email, detailing the offers of PPE donations, the situation was described as a “clear reversal”:
Subject: Medical Supplies from Asia/China
...With China's manufacturing capacity increasingly coming back on line and COVID-19 mostly under control in China, but accelerating in Canada, we have now entered into a clear reversal of the earlier situation.
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The Commons government operations committee last evening voted 6-5 to compel disclosure of actual Covid-19 spending by month’s end, and every month after that. Cabinet has not reported expenses since borrowing more than a half-trillion in the first 120 days of the pandemic: “What I’m not getting is what you’re trying to hide.”
The federal government has blown past initial cost estimates for a key COVID-19 support program, prompting more warnings that Ottawa should modify some of its pandemic benefits as a way to trim spending.
The Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) — which pays unemployed Canadians $2,000 a month — was initially estimated by Finance officials to cost $6.3 billion by the end of March. But it has now almost doubled to $11.1 billion as of Feb. 28, according to data posted by the government.
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So, why didn't the Trudeau government nationalise protective equipment or medicine production?
I'm sure that there is a reason:
A Canadian vaccine researcher says he believes that Chinese political machinations ended a vaccine partnership last summer.
Dr. Scott Halperin, the director of the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology, made the accusation Thursday to the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations.
The partnership was originally planned to be between China’s CanSino Biologics and the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. CanSino had been given a licence by the National Research Council to use a Canadian biological product as part of a COVID-19 vaccine.
China blocked shipments it was supposed to send to Dalhousie researchers by the end of May 2020 to start human trials.
Halperin said he was initially told it was due to bureaucratic issues such as paperwork.
By August, he said, it became clear that the Chinese government had no desire for the vaccine to leave the country.
Halperin said he realized paperwork wasn’t to blame after he discovered the vaccine had been given the green light to be shipped out of China to Russia, Pakistan, Mexico, Chile and Argentina — all of which were countries researchers had planned to stage the third phase of the clinical trials in.
“It was clear that this was not … that CanSino wasn’t able to ship out of the country, but that it was specific to Canada,” he said Thursday.
“That’s when it became clear it was political and not something that was going to be solved by more paperwork.”
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Canada's "health minister" is a graphics arts designer:
During a meeting before the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, Liberal Health Minister Patty Hajdu admitted that the evidence supporting hotel quarantine over at-home quarantine is "incomplete."
Yes, looking into those rape hotels can be an "incomplete" exercise.
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