Quebec Public Health Solicited Help to Justify Second Curfew Just Hours Before Announcement, Emails Show

Quebec Public Health Solicited Help to Justify Second Curfew Just Hours Before Announcement, Emails Show
Quebec Public Health Director Horacio Arruda speaks during a news conference in Montreal on Dec. 22, 2021. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press
Isaac Teo
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A series of emails obtained by Radio-Canada revealed that Quebec’s former public health director was looking for scientific explanations to justify imposing a curfew mere hours before the province announced on Dec. 30, 2021, that it would enforce the measure on New Year’s Eve.

It was the second curfew in Quebec since the pandemic began.