Teaching kids to swim also plays a crucial role in drowning prevention, but the pandemic did set lessons back significantly with aquatic centres closed and restrictions on class sizes put in place
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Quebec averages about 80 drownings per year, said Raynald Hawkins, general manager of the Lifesaving Society's Quebec branch. Now with so few lessons available for kids, he said it is time for pools to rethink the way lessons are offered.