The Shifting Goalposts of Canada’s Pandemic Policies

The Shifting Goalposts of Canada’s Pandemic Policies
Police stop and question a woman at the start of a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. COVID-19 curfew imposed by the province of Quebec, in Montreal on Dec. 31, 2021. The Canadian Press/Peter McCabe
Omid Ghoreishi
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From flip-flopping on mask mandates, to initially leaving borders unprotected against travellers from the pandemic’s epicentre, to applying lockdowns inconsistently, to piling on more conflicting measures amid rising Omicron cases, Canadians have endured a never-ending see-saw of COVID-19 policies since the virus outbreak began in China—in many cases presented in the name of undisputed science.

Omid Ghoreishi
Omid Ghoreishi
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Omid Ghoreishi is with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times.
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