‘May you govern in interesting times’: MPs, Senators look back on the COVID-19 pandemic and the day ‘everything changed’

With four years in the books since Canada's Parliament shut down to deal with an emerging public health threat, and more than a year after the World Health Organization announced an official end to the global pandemic, Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan says no one is 'over COVID.’
Members’ seats sit empty for Question Period in West Block on Feb. 24, 2021, following the establishment of of virtual hybrid House of Commons sittings due to COVID-19.

On March 13, 2020, both Chambers of Parliament agreed to adjourn for five weeks as the rest of Canada prepared for what they hoped would be “two weeks to flatten the curve” of the rapidly spreading SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, COVID-19. For the next three years, Canadian...

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