
OTTAWA – Health Minister Patty Hajdu told senators Friday that Canada’s less fractured political culture has been an asset in the fight against COVID-19, especially compared to America.
Speaking at the Senate committee on social affairs, science and technology, Hajdu said politicians of all stripes had worked together to avoid the division seen in the United States.
“We don’t have the level of political animosity that we see in our southern neighbours around whether or not the virus was real,” she said. “No politician in Canada questioned whether the virus was real, which really helped Canadians take it seriously.”
Hajdu spoke as several U.S. states saw frightening new numbers of coronavirus cases including nearly 9,000 in a single day in Florida. Many of the states now seeing huge spikes in new cases were among the first to reopen and did so widely with fewer limits.
Hajdu said all levels of government in Canada have moved slowly and cautiously in their reopening plans.
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