Brian Lilley: We now know the Trudeau government took actions in the lead-up to COVID-19 that seriously weakened Canada’s pandemic preparedness. As I’ve reported on extensively, the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile — the backstop for provincial health systems for items such as anti-viral drugs and personal protective equipment — was allowed to wither and rot.
Now we have learned that an early warning system for detecting pandemics was silenced in 2019, just months before COVID-19 reared its ugly head.
The Global Public Health Intelligence Network was started in 1998 to give the Canadian government and, through it, the World Health Organization a heads up when new viruses, outbreaks or other potential health problems arose. The team of doctors and epidemiologists would scour news sources around the world, often in small local news outlets, looking for patterns.
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