One incontrovertible fact about pandemic that’s both admirable and puzzling

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Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, Transport Minister Marc Garneau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Health Minister Patty Hajdu, Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos, and moderator Toronto Star reporter Bruce Campion-Smith, pictured on March 16, 2020, at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

March 23, 2020

HALIFAX—I am neither a scientist or a doctor, so I don’t really know if governments are saving us from COVID-19. If words were deeds, we would already be saved 10 times over. But there is one incontrovertible fact about the pandemic that is both admirable and puzzling. Let’s start with the ...

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