Canada will need ‘intensive collaboration’ between provinces, territories, and federal government for next pandemic, say experts

A new approach to health-care governance and an increased focus on the social determinants of health are two crucial and key lessons, experts say, to learn from this pandemic and to prepare for the next one.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured Sept. 29, 2020, on the Hill, are responsible for two files that are crucial to the government pandemic response and building the capacity to fight the next one, experts say.
In the fall of 1918, thousands of Canadians were dying on the battlefields of Europe in the First World War. Once the war ended on Nov. 11, 1918, however, the dying continued on the home front. The Spanish flu was reaching its crescendo that fall having first appeared in the spring, though it went ...

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