The end goal? Getting to the finish line with few political hurdles

Frustrations are high. Motivational words have less meaning. Outcomes are sought as quickly as possible. The charge is moving to it being time to get on living with COVID in a more functional, less-debilitating manner.

After nearly two years of ever-changing conditions and rules, all citizens seek is one key outcome—the endemic. No politician—whether governing like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or opposing like Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole—can realistically promise and deliver on that, writes Tim Powers. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

January 12, 2022

OTTAWA—It is 2022. For now, optimism is taking a back seat to Omicron. Frustration rules among many of us. If there is light at the end of the tunnel it is still being obscured by a COVID fog bank. Being that moribund is like creating my own emotional prison—time for a jail break. At the time o...

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