Canada’s Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said Friday his government expects to announce changes to border measures next week, with the “worst of Omicron now behind us.” During a press conference in Ottawa providing an update on COVID-19, Duclos didn’t hint at what those changes would entail, but this week the Opposition Conservatives criticized the border measures as being out of step with the rest of the developed world. “The pre-departure, on-arrival PCR test for fully vaccinated travellers makes no sense. It is not science. Canada’s current COVID-19 travel restrictions are obsolete,” said Conservative MP and transport critic Melissa Lantsman in the House of Commons on Feb. 10. The government has been adamant when imposing measures or defending them that it has been following science, and Duclos added the concept of “prudence” to the discourse about what should be considered when deciding on the relaxing of public health measures. “As we …