A health crisis is no time to double down on political peeves

One has to hope that our international leaders will quickly realize that you cannot close the borders to a virus that is already expanded to all corners of the world.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured at the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels, have in recent days positioned COVID-19 as something drummed up by China and Iran, writes Scott Taylor.Flickr photograph courtesy of NATO

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

March 25, 2020

OTTAWA—One would like to imagine that, in the face of a global threat of the magnitude of the current COVID-19 pandemic, humankind would be unified into a common defence. Just like the plot line of the classic 1996 Hollywood action movie Independence Day, wherein planet Earth is threaten...

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