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Lockdowns Are ‘Not Supported by Strong Science’: Ontario’s Former Chief Medical Officer
Ontario’s former chief medical officer criticized the province’s lockdown measures in an open letter sent to Premier Doug Ford on Monday.
“Our well-intentioned but misguided efforts to control Covid are only compounding the tragedy,” Dr. Richard Schabas wrote. “We need to change course.”
Schabas served as Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health from 1987 to 1997 and was Chief of Staff at York Central Hospital during the outbreak of SARS in 2003.
“Lockdown was never part of our planned pandemic response nor is it supported by strong science,” Schabas wrote. “Reasonable estimates of the infection fatality rate from Covid have been declining as we learn more,” he continued. “Models that predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid in Canada were badly wrong because they used incorrect, exaggerated inputs.”
Premier Makes Cabinet Changes
Member of the Legislative Assembly, Steinbach
On Tuesday, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister changed his provincial Cabinet. This was the first major change to Cabinet roles in about two and a half years and several key positions were reassigned. Like others, I was asked to take on new responsibilities in the provincial Cabinet and am looking forward to these new roles.
As part of the Cabinet reassignments, I was appointed Manitoba’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Legislative and Public Affairs. In the role of Deputy Premier I am pleased to be able to support the Premier and Cabinet and to bring the views of constituents and Manitobans to this position. In addition, I will be serving as the Minister of Legislative and Public Affairs. In this role I will retain the position of Government House Leader and be responsible for several areas of government and legislation that deal with the public’s access to government and democracy. These include areas o