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Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured May 26, 2020, arriving for a media briefing on the Hill. The COVID-19 pandemic has captured the attention of Canadians with an urgency and a level of grudging acceptance unlike any other medical or natural disaster in our lifetime. We have complied with imposed restrictions and privations that would have been thought impossible and unacceptable under normal circumstances mere days before they were imposed, writes Simon Sutcliffe. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SIMON SUTCLIFFE

June 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has captured the attention of Canadians with an urgency and a level of grudging acceptance unlike any other medical or natural disaster in our lifetime. We have complied with imposed restrictions and privations that would have been thought impossible and unacceptable under norm...

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