‘Excess Deaths’ From Canada’s COVID Response: Justice Centre Challenges Narrative of ’Success’

A storefront displays a "for lease" sign as part of a protest against the Ontario government's pandemic lockdown rules, on Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto on Nov. 24, 2020. The Canadian Press/Jody White

A Canadian legal advocacy organization is challenging the narrative by governments, media, and medical associations that Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been “successful.”

In a report published on Sept. 13, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) argues that the “prevailing consensus” that the Canadian response to COVID has been successful is biased because there appears to be no reference to the “excess deaths” caused by Canada’s strategy that has been “among the most stringent and sustained lockdown policies in the world.”