Lapse in early pandemic warning system ‘a colossal failure,’ says former federal Liberal health minister Dosanjh

'We would have been far better prepared, we would have had far more robust tools at our disposal, had we not put GPHIN to sleep,' said former health minister Ujjal Dosanjh.

Canada's federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured May 26, 2020, arriving on the Hill for a media availability in West Block to update Canadians on the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

September 28, 2020

Following the abrupt resignation of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) president Tina Namiesniowski on Sept. 18, a former Liberal federal health minister says the lapse in the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN)’s role under this government’s watch was “a colossal fail...

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