Once again, it is my duty to remind readers that our federal government is apparently preparing to call a premature election based on what it believes to be the popularity it has earned for its handling of the COVID crisis. Apart from fatalities per capita, in which Canada’s performance is strong among advanced countries that provide believable information, the chief measurement of this country’s handling of the pandemic at this stage of the game is the percentage of people who have been fully vaccinated. By this criterion, Canada ranks 62, at 2.6 per cent. Among the countries that are less developed and have less-advanced public health services than Canada are, in ascending order of their superiority to us in this vital statistic, Montenegro, Cambodia, Croatia, Mexico, Panama, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Romania, Turkey, Morocco, Uruguay, Chile and Northern Cyprus…
Conrad Black: Canada needs a new path forward … But our bumbling Opposition has yet to present us with one
