The COVID-19 economic dislocation, climate emergency, and what governments must consider

Mitigation and a return to health will require fully functioning markets. We don't need a planned, centralized economy, but we do need vision and good government policy over an uncertain next decade.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on July 8, 2020, in Ottawa.
GIBSONS, B.C.—Six months into the COVID-19 global pandemic, it's looking increasingly like getting back to normal might take a long, long time and that the social and economic dislocation caused could endanger Canadians in ways just beginning to be appreciated. Here in Canada our governments have...

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