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Never Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch: Canada and Covid-19 Edition

 


Liberals to release federal budget Monday, with focus on post-COVID-19 economy

Jordan Press—CTV News

Well, the federal government thinks it's at the point where it can begin thinking about the time to come after Covid-19. Perhaps there's some room for optimism but then again what could be on the horizon may be hidden by the blazing sun. What may be burning is not the sky but instead the landscape.

For instance, the news out of India is very concerning. It is as concerning as the news out of China back in November of 2019. The new variant emerging in India needs some serious study; India needs to become a place of concern for travel and trade right now, and flights to and fro should be suspended until more is known.

That it is emerging that herd immunity needs only 60% as studies coming out of the UK and Israel is a major relief but if the virus in India is changed enough to avoid current immunization, then any and all efforts right now would be for naught.

As things have been done, as the governments of Canada have conducted themselves, things are in need of serious change and reform. Leadership has been found wanting in nearly every province. There were exceptions but for the most part, political and bureaucratic leaders placed their positions well above that of Canadian citizens' lives. They would argue they were protecting livelihoods but the precarity introduced by the half-measures done by the governments have wrought more damage than if shutdowns were done with the intention of reaching Covid-0 from the get-go.

It really is time to begin thinking about wholesale change of Canada's leadership whether Liberal, Conservative, or NDP. It is about time to begin moving on from the failed ideas of neo-liberalism, and embrace proper ideals that allow for government intervention when and if such is necessary. The approach Canada has taken in allowing its sovereignty to wane and whither under undue American influence needs to end, and Canada needs to softly reassert its sovereignty in a world of sovereign nations.

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