PHAC and Health Canada have not been assets in this pandemic

I’m sure there are medical professionals in PHAC today not finding any joy in saying 'We told you so.' It seems all the bad habits at Health Canada infected the agency, and the chaotic pandemic response was the result.

Initially, PHAC was populated by experts from the medical field, like Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam. But changes made by successive governments led to a takeover by senior bureaucrats and the loss of the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

February 3, 2021

MONTREAL—I sometimes find real interest in the obscure. So, my interest was piqued by a story hidden away on the inside pages, about the release of a September 2020 report on the government’s pandemic response, titled “Lessons Learned from the Public Health Agency of Canada's COVID-19 Response...

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