"Government documents reveal a slow start to Canada's COVID-19 response"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-19-government-documents-1.5528726
As if anyone needed documents to know this, but it does confirm it. The feds only got their arse in gear in mid-March. They ignored international health warnings. I've been mostly pleased by their response since then.
It wasn't that long ago that you were saying the reaction was overblown. Actually, it was right in the midst of it getting very bad. And now you're complaining that the government didn't take action quick enough. If the government took action a month earlier, your conspiracy-theory brain would have exploded!
That said, I agree with the gist of the article. Officials and government were afraid of what taking action would mean. It would have been a huge disruption to our daily lives before things got really bad... I'm not sure the general public (who are idiots) and businesses (who are greedy) would have accepted that before there was a full blown crisis.
What we need in the future, and what I hope will come out of this, is a government who will listen to
science and experts more, and the bureaucracy less when it comes to something like a
pandemic*. Where scientists are the ones who are doing the recommending and not some bureaucrats who worry about public reaction more than they do about public health; people who understand what it really takes to deal with a
pandemic*, and worry less (or not at all) about the political consequences.
(*Substitute
climate change for
pandemic in my post as to what we'll need in the future as well. The same thing is happening, just at a much slower pace than a viral pandemic)