Commentary
It’s quite something to think that a year ago today Ontario was still under a hard lockdown. Premier Doug Ford, who had presided over some of the harshest COVID-19 policies in the free world, only ended the province’s fourth lockdown on Jan. 31, 2022.
These outrageous policies happened despite the fact that in most comparable jurisdictions—including the Democrat-governed American states immediately adjacent to Ontario—had abandoned these restrictions months before.
Yet Ontario and other parts of Canada operated in a sort of information silo, where a population that usually prides itself on being worldly became willfully ignorant to the more evolved way other parts of the world were responding to the virus….