Canada’s former and first chief public health officer, Dr. David Butler-Jones, says no. A formal federal-provincial-territorial public health network was created. The provinces spent more on labs and public health services and everybody vowed to be ready for the next crisis. It might be because of the sheer volume and maybe we haven’t made the public health agency big enough. “We did not have an economic crisis with SARS, we did not have an economic crisis with H1N1.

Source: thestar April 10, 2020 22:30 UTC