Then there was Wednesday, when CBC News managed to quantify the provinces’ well-known failure to roll out, or even try to roll out, rapid antigen tests. With every province save Saskatchewan reporting back, it seems only 11 per cent of 12.5 million tests distributed to the provinces beginning late last year have been administered.
Ontario, whose Premier Doug Ford was among the loudest rightly demanding such tests be approved and procured, leads the way at a not-so-impressive 18.5 per cent. Alberta, whose Premier Jason Kenney was just as loud, is in last place at less than one per cent.
Quebec wants nothing to do with these tests, despite opposition pleas to roll them out as a screening tool in high-risk environments — which is precisely what they’re for. “Especially in the second wave where we have been able now to test 35,000 to 40,000 (people) a day and even more than that, we don’t need additional tests,” Health Minister Christian Dubé sniffed last month.
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