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The Globe and Mail Letters
April 15: ‘I am not only embarrassed but ashamed of Canada.’ How are vaccine rollouts going? Plus other letters to the editor Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published April 15, 2021
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Falling behind
Re The COVID-19 Tables Have Turned For Canada (Opinion, April 10): I am disheartened that, for the first time in my adult life, I am not only embarrassed but ashamed of Canada.
As a proud Canadian who resides and works in the United States, I have long extolled the virtues and advantages of Canada’s health care system to my American friends and colleagues. The failure of Justin Trudeau and his government to extract Canada from the strictures of the pandemic seems to have given lie to all that. And now the news that Canada has surpassed the U.S. in terms of cases per capita, even after our year of languish here under Donald Trump