Carney offered that assessment of Canada's pandemic response in a wide-ranging interview airing Sunday on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live. We weren't prepared in terms of vaccine capacity," Carney told host Rosemary Barton. The former Goldman Sachs investment banker compared the global response to COVID-19 to that of the 2008 crisis, which he said caught most countries off guard. "Resilience will come from Canadians, will come from our own domestic capacity," said Carney. Carney said the Liberal government made the right decision to spend big on pandemic benefit programs like the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) and the federal wage subsidy.

Source: CBC News March 14, 2021 13:00 UTC