MPs say Canadians feeling ‘exasperation,’ ‘frustration’ with pandemic, and Graves says national outlook ‘unsurprisingly quite dark’

With another year of holiday plans upended by rising case numbers, to a serious crunch felt by overburdened health care workers fatigued by the pandemic, COVID-19 continues to cast its ugly shadow over family life, business, and politics.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pictured Jan. 5, 2022, during his first media availability of 2022 at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building. The prime minster said that 'when people see that we’re in lockdowns or serious public health restrictions right now because the risk posed to all of us by unvaccinated people, people get angry.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

January 10, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic that has come to define the day-to-day lives of Canadians for nearly two years now continues to stubbornly stick around with the emergence of the Omicron variant, with MPs saying their constituents are frustrated, exasperated, and confused with the public health crisis that see...

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