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VICTORIA — The past week has featured three tests of Premier John Horgan’s promise of openness and transparency — and his NDP government failed all three.
The most telling example was the leak of two internal reports from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, which showed the government has been assembling far more information about the COVID-19 outbreak than it made public.
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“The internal reports — each over 45 pages — are four times longer than the weekly reports published by the centre,” as Nathan Griffiths reported in The Vancouver Sun on Friday. “They delve into the details of COVID-19 case counts and vaccinations at the neighbourhood level, breakdowns about variants of concern, and more … a level of detail the centre has so far refused to make public despite repeated calls from academics and researchers.”