COVID-19 illuminating challenges of democratic governance

Crises create governance distortions that affect the allocation of resources, the setting of priorities, and the interpretation of laws that restrict or guide the behaviour of citizens.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured at the National Press Theatre, where press conferences were being held before officials shifted to a bigger room, chairs the feds' cabinet committee on COVID-19. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PASCAL DESBIENS

April 1, 2020

Is COVID-19 a blessing in disguise? Patients infected or dying from COVID-19 are the least likely to think so. This virus has shaken a number of concepts that many citizens of democratic societies take for granted. Reviews of ho...

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