Canada’s most vulnerable being let down again

For those aged 85 and above—our most vulnerable population—Canada’s situation is deteriorating with its excess death rate for Canada at 18.0 per cent, dramatically higher than the other developed countries in our comparison.
It’s been said that the greatest weapon we have to fight a pandemic is information. In this respect, perhaps symbolic of the pandemic experience as a whole, Canada is failing its most vulnerable citizens, writes Richard Audas.
It’s been said that the greatest weapon we have to fight a pandemic is information. In this respect, perhaps symbolic of the pandemic experience as a whole, Canada is failing its most vulnerable citizens. In the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s

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