Canada’s costly mishandling of pandemic crisis has many lessons

The pandemic showed that the federal government lacks the analytical and strategic capabilities to pursue an innovation strategy that delivers real results.

Like its Conservative predecessor, the Trudeau government is a transactional government, not a strategic government. Changing this is one of the biggest challenges facing us if we are to achieve our potential as a country. The mishandling of the pandemic is the tip of the iceberg, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 8, 2021

TORONTO—Canada’s costly mishandling of the pandemic crisis has many lessons. One of the most important is that the federal government is woefully weak in its strategic leadership on big picture, but high-risk innovation. Britain could race ahead and become a major vaccine producer. Canada failed...

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