Article content continuedBut we must also recognize that the pandemic has exposed structural issues that can’t be solved by one person. Canada has a state capacity problem. The inability to procure a timely and reliable supply of the coronavirus vaccine isn’t even this week’s only evidence of our deficient state capacity. A quotation from the story — “this project hasn’t met a single one of its major milestones” — unintentionally, yet poignantly, captures the bureaucratic malaise that has come to bedevil modern Canadian policy and governance. We’ve created a system that favours prescription over discretion, box-ticking compliance over human judgment and ultimately risk mitigation over collective reward.

Source: National Post February 05, 2021 14:51 UTC