Author: Blazingcatfur

Newly-released open data from the Ontario government confirms, just in time for the Christmas shopping season, that the entire provincial retail sector has only been directly linked to 106 cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

That would account for less than 0.1% of the approximately 116,000 Ontario cases to date. That 106 is also not all shoppers acquiring the virus, but includes retail employees who have been infected by co-workers.

The Trudeau Liberals’ fall economic statement stumbles through 200-plus pages of verbal political unreadable claptrap about building back better COVID-19 resilient green gender prudent fiscal stimulus affordable jumpstarted racial equality childcare climate solutions and employee stock option decisive dynamic Indigenous inclusive net-zero cross-border digital tax cut increases. At the end of this onslaught, which is all too typical of annual federal budgetary documents, Canadians are left with two big numbers.

After a week of being battered over the issue of Canadians getting COVID-19 vaccines later than other countries, the Trudeau Liberals attempted some defence on the issue. I’m not sure it worked.

The problem began last Tuesday when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that COVID vaccines are being produced in other countries and that Canadians would not get the first doses because, “Canada no longer has any domestic production capacity for vaccines.” That claim about Canadian vaccine production is false but let’s set that aside for now.