Experts are calling for an independent national inquiry into Canada\u0027s COVID\u002D19 response in articles published in the British Medical Journal
However, “We wouldn’t know because no pandemic inquiry has been established by its federal government. This is a mistake.”
The BMJ post-mortems explore the highs and the lows of Canada’s response after a traveller returning home to Toronto from China was identified as the country’s first COVID case in January 2020. There was fragmented health leadership, and confusion over data sharing between the Public Health Agency of Canada and provincial health authorities, a situation that will persist “without major reform,” the authors said. The public also must be involved in future decision-making “through direct consultations and inclusion of community organizations.”
“Those are questions that need to be put to a public national inquiry,” Dr. Jocalyn Clark, the BMJ’s international editor who commissioned the series and wrote the lead editorial, said in an interview. There’s a sense of “déja vu of a lot of things that were raised” after the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in 2002-2004, she said, including squabbling and dysfunctional relationships between different levels of government.
While the Liberal government “waxed lyrical” about sharing vaccines with poorer nations, Canada became “one of the most prominent hoarders of the limited global COVID-19 vaccine supply, despite itself being wholly reliant on importation,” other researchers wrote in the BMJ.
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