The West Block Episode 17, Season 10
Annamie Paul, Green Party Leader, Toronto
Ryan O’Connor, Lawyer, Toronto
Kirsten Hillman, Ambassador of Canada to the United States
Mercedes Stephenson interview with Retired General Jonathan Vance
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
: “Deciding who gets an ICU bed and who doesn’t, well that’s not where we want to be.”
Abigail Bimman: Ramped up restrictions amid rising cases. The future of Canada-U.S. relations with the transition of power like we’ve never seen before. And, Canada’s longest serving chief of the defence staff, retires.
It’s Sunday, January 17
th. I’m Abigail Bimman. Mercedes Stephenson is away today.
there, halted just minutes into it when a commissioner and mother revealed in tears that protesters had gathered outside her home and that she needed to get to her 12-year-old son. here s abc s kaylee hartung tonight. reporter: tonight, hospitals across the country reaching a breaking point. in california, ambulances are stacked up with patients forced to wait outside the e.r. for the first time, more than 30,000 new cases in a single day in california. i see patients die every day. reporter: dr. sarkis arabian has been working 11 days straight. i m not going to sugarcoat it, as an intensive care doctor, i thought i was prepared to take care of critical patients. this is the specialty that i chose to go into, but this is nothing that i ve seen before. reporter: late today, the l.a. county health director breaking down in tears over the county s growing death toll. sorry. over 8,000 people who were beloved members of their families are not coming back.