Public health experts, NDP MP Davies echo medical journal’s call for inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response

Health Minister Mark Holland’s office said the government would ‘take stock of lessons learned,’ but stopped short of committing to a public inquiry.

Clockwise, from top left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam, former health minister Patty Hajdu, Quebec Premier François Legault, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and deputy chief public health officer Howard Njoo.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE, IAN CAMPBELL

August 11, 2023

A series of articles in a leading medical journal calling for a national public inquiry into Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic are “sobering” and should serve as “a catalyst” for the Liberal government to take that step, says NDP health critic Don Davies.

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