British Columbia’s NDP government keeps schools and workplaces open as infections surge
The third wave of Canada’s COVID-19 pandemic is surging across the country, including in British Columbia. On Saturday, the province reported 1,072 new infections the third time in four days that the Canada’s West Coast province set a new record for the highest daily total of new infections since the start of the pandemic.
Despite skyrocketing infection numbers, driven by a substantial rise in cases of the more infectious Brazilian P.1 variant, schools and workplaces remain open across the province. British Columbia’s trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP) government continues to cover up the extent of infections by refusing to provide information to the public about the number of infections in educational institutions. Instead, every outbreak in a school, regardless of the number of cases it produces, is misleadingly referred to as one “exposure.”
Canada’s schools are not “safe!” Build rank-and-file committees to shut down all in-person classes and save lives!
organized Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee.
We have formed the Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee to fight for the immediate closure of all schools across the country. Such action is urgently required to protect the lives of school staff, students and their families from the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
Even the federal government’s own chief medical officer acknowledges that a third wave of the pandemic is rapidly developing, fuelled by new, more contagious variants of the virus, and that it threatens to be even more deadly than the two previous waves.