By John Adams
and Kashif Pirzada
Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Canada’s ongoing failure to effectively control the spread of COVID-19 reflects increasing failures by governments to coordinate with one another and to respond quickly and effectively to new developments and scientific advances. This is abundantly clear in the self-harm inflicted by our original difficulties in sourcing of personal protective equipment (PPE), Canada’s late and flawed strategy for vaccine procurement, and our continuing faulty approach to self-sufficiency in drug manufacturing.