Canada needs an inquiry into COVID-19’s lessons

The coronavirus pandemic was the most tectonic event in generations. If that doesn’t prompt a national soul-searching to examine what we have learned and what needs to change, what will?
A Canadian Armed Forces member helps provide care to residents at the Grace Dart Extended Care Centre in Montreal, as part of Operation Laser on May 8, 2020.

Two years ago, I proposed a royal commission to examine what we’ve learned from the pandemic, and especially its impact on Canada’s most vulnerable. A year-long inquiry into the United Kingdom’s handling of COVID-19 has already filed its report. Australia just announce...

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