Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has tested positive for COVID-19.
CPC leader O'Tool purposely crafted a means to disingenuously attack the governing Liberal Party/PM Trudeau: as Parliament is an essential service, MPs (and their families) have access to dedicated COVID-19 testing services. In spite of this, O'Tool initially chose not to use this available service; instead, as a "man of the peeps", opted to take the public route in Ottawa... despite it being widely known that this public route was backed up for days given a lack of (Ontario provincial domain) testing capacity.
so... O'Tool decides to stage an act of fake outrage over waiting then being turned away at the public test center... and puts out a widely covered press release emphasizing, "the Trudeau Liberals have created this mess by refusing to approve other testing methods". In actuality, Health Canada regulators are currently reviewing 3 rapid testing options - but have real concerns about the accuracy of the testing; specifically: "Quidel Corporation's Sofia 2 SARS device, Becton Dickinson's Veritor System for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and a third candidate, Korean-based SD Biosensor, Inc". Of course, CPC Shadow Health critic, BuffaloGal Rempel, takes up the charge and doubles-down on the claimed government failure!
by the by: O'Tool then decides to take the fam to the dedicated testing service for MPs and family members. Wait, what's this:
CPC leader O'Tool tests positive for COVID-19. Oh my!