Commentary
Increasing number of Canadians are demanding a national, independent investigation into government mismanagement of the COVID outbreak. Because governments themselves would be the subject of such an investigation, its conduct would need to be assigned to a non-governmental commission whose commissioners possess the experience, expertise, and personal integrity necessary to render their findings credible with the general public.
To illustrate what such an investigation might be like, the Canadian Covid Care Alliance (CCCA) recently coordinated a three day in-person and online “Citizens’ Hearing” into Canada’s response to the COVID outbreak. Some 60 people testified to a three-person panel as to the effects on their personal lives of the health protection measures adopted or to offer alternative medical and scientific perspectives on which the response to the COVID outbreak might have been based….