The premise and focus of Canada’s pandemic response has been misguided—but it’s not too late to change course, says a former emergency management expert and retired Canadian army officer, who has been trying to get all of Canada’s premiers on board with his detailed action plan since the spring. David Redman is a former executive director of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency who later spent nearly 10 years as an organizational consultant working on best practices for emergency management. He also served as an officer with the Canadian Armed Forces for 27 years, leading complex missions as lieutenant-colonel. Redman says the decision to put doctors and medical officers in charge of the entire pandemic response at the outset was a mistake, because they were not trained to look outside of a narrow medical scope. This led to the premise that COVID-19 is a “public health emergency,” but he says it’s …