Jury still out on whether 2020’s COVID tragedy will lead to a better post-pandemic world

In the rich, industrialized world at least, the pandemic proved that our societies aren’t equipped to deal with crises that paralyze our economies and rely on individual responsibility to confront a universal problem.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, centre, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will need to deal with a multi-dimensional puzzle of shifting issues and interests that will be a make-or-break factor for each party in the next national vote, writes Les Whittington.
OTTAWA—The year 2020: not a great year for the human race. It will be remembered in the long run as one of a series of momentous, mostly destructive events in the past century. There’s 1929, when the stock-market crash kicked off the Great Depression; the 1939-40 aggression of Germany under Hi...

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