Canada’s use of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic goes against all previous knowledge, published studies, and Canadian pandemic response plans, says a former head of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency, adding that the collateral damage will last for at least a generation. “We just ignored [existing pandemic plans] and placed the medical officers in charge who were not trained to do this,” said David Redman, adding that those existing plans from all  provinces and territories as well as the federal government can be found on pandemicalternative.org Redman was speaking at a webinar hosted by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy on July 29, commenting on how governments have sidelined pre-established emergency plans prepared based on “all the hard lessons learned” from previous pandemics. He pointed to a guidance document published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in September 2019, prior to the arrival of COVID-19, titled “Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and …