Glavin: A budget to pay for the Trudeau government s bungling on COVID elliotlakestandard.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elliotlakestandard.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Married 58 years, Oscar and Mary Fontaine lived together in their family home until the day he died.
Though advanced Parkinson’s made him weak, forcing him to use a feeding tube, Oscar still enjoyed his simple pleasures. Even as a pandemic raged around the world, and thousands died cut off from their families in hospitals and long-term care beds, Oscar was able to visit with family, watch tomatoes ripen in the backyard and rest amidst the familiar sights of home until his eyes grew too tired to open.
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There is a word that appears in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget speech this week, and it seems oddly out of place, especially so in light of the fact that Budget 2021 is largely a function of her government’s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis. It’s the word “sorry.”
It’s not just that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has gone out of his way to insist he has no regrets about his government’s management of the catastrophe. It’s also that it was the Liberal government itself that had the heaviest hand in making the catastrophe that Team Trudeau is now setting about to repair with a federal budget that’s already a year overdue. As onetime Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre has pointed out, Budget 2021 will allow Trudeau the distinction of having sunk the country, in seven years, into a debt deeper than all the debts Canada had hitherto racked up over 148 years, combined.
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Trudeau’s made-in-Canada vaccine roll-out debacle may become the biggest scandal in Canadian history because lives are involved.
As of April 15, 22.7 per cent of all Americans were fully vaccinated (or received two doses) and another 38.6 per cent have received their first dose. That is roughly 251 million doses. By contrast, Canada has only provided 8.5 million doses, most of which will be reduced in effectiveness because of the Trudeau government’s decision to delay the second dose by 16 weeks, contrary to pharma-company instructions.
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