Conservative MP, experts call for broad review of COVID-19 decision-making to help prepare for next major health threat

The federal Liberal government ordered an external review about the use of science advice during the pandemic but there is little awareness of this report. ‘No one said a peep about this report, like it was done and moved along,’ says infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch.

Conservative MP Matt Strauss, left, and Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski are both doctors. Strauss says he would like to see the government review its decisions from the pandemic, while Powlowski says that he's not opposed to a review but wonders if it would bring societal tensions from the pandemic back to the fore.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY TESSIE SANCI

May 25, 2026

As the global spread of infectious diseases continues to make news—with Canada confirming its first domestic hantavirus case and the World Health Organization declaring the Congo's Ebola outbreak a public health emergency—attention is shifting to the fact that the Libera...

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