Politics This Morning

Politics This Morning: Coronavirus hits the House

Quebec moved to ban public gatherings with crowds of more than 250 people to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, while Ontario decided to cancel classes for the next couple of weeks.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, pictured at the Senate of Canada Building. Plans for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers to meet in Ottawa were scuttled after Mr. Trudeau decided to work from home as a precaution while his wife, Sophie, awaits her Covid-19 test results.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

March 13, 2020

Happy Friday, It's been one heck of a week. The World Health Organization officially classified the coronavirus a pandemic, while saying the scale of the outbreak is still "controllable." A day after that declaration, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been forced to work in isolati...

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