If the Toronto Maple Leafs Can Have Rapid Testing, Why Can’t Everyone?

If the Toronto Maple Leafs Can Have Rapid Testing, Why Can’t Everyone?
People wait to be tested for COVID-19 at a clinic in Montreal on Jan. 3, 2021. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
John Robson
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One does not expect good news about the Toronto Maple Leafs. (For those unfamiliar with ice hockey, my childhood idols have not won the “Stanley Cup” since 1967 and seem unlikely to do so in the next 54 years either.) But their employees are getting rapid antigen tests for COVID-19. And if you’re wondering how our inept governments accomplished this miracle, albeit for favoured elites not we ordinary shlubs, the short answer is: They failed to get in the way.

John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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