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Health Canada’s COVID-19 task force ‘likely working night and day’ as bureaucrats across departments hammer out policy response

The roughly 30-person team includes employees from Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Treasury Board Secretariat, Employment and Social Development Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and more.

Health Minister Patty Hajdu provides an update on the government’s COVID-19 response in the West Block on April 2. Behind the scenes, a task force of bureaucrats is working at a ‘hectic’ pace to provide the policy backbone.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY TESSIE SANCI

April 13, 2020

The global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrated by a “whole-of-government” approach that has captured bureaucrats from many federal departments to form Health Canada’s COVID-19 task force. The team was “established to provide dedicated policy and strategic planning capacity to th...

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