Despite claims by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada “had a better pandemic” than many of its peer countries, data shows that the Canadian experience has been “far from positive,” a think tank says.
A news release by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) on March 1 states that Trudeau’s claims do not paint a true picture of how his government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Canadians.
“Unfortunately, those casual references to broad impact categories don’t reflect the hard truths compiled by MLI’s COVID Misery Index (CMI), which was designed to capture a meaningful barometer of how public policy choices ultimately affected Canadians during the depths of the pandemic,” the release said….