The Quebec government has issued tens of thousands of fines to residents who did not comply with its pandemic restrictions, but a new study finds that this “punitive” approach does not necessarily slow down the spread of COVID-19. Released on March 10, the study, conducted by four researchers from the University of Montreal’s Profiling Observatory…

The Quebec government has issued tens of thousands of fines to residents who did not comply with its pandemic restrictions, but a new report finds that this “punitive” approach does not necessarily slow the spread of COVID-19. “Québec chose to turn the public health crisis into a public safety crisis, managed with 46,563 police interventions,”…