And yet I'm supposed to use the word 'honourable' AND his official position before I make mention of Justin?
Pfffffttttttttt...I'll wear being a social pariah as a badge of honour in this case...
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Paul Wells gives our PMO another kick to the crotch of this government’s ability to do anything.
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How Canada prepares for the next global killer. And how another government might.
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Paul Wells gives our PMO another kick to the crotch of this government’s ability to do anything.
Ready for next time. Don't ask about last time
How Canada prepares for the next global killer. And how another government might.
Hmmm…if only there were already organizations to deal with public health and emergency readiness situations….
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Oh goodie! An opportunity to further grow theHmmm…if only there were already organizations to deal with public health and emergency readiness situations….
Right!?? Ya know, for a while now I've thought to myself... "We need ANOTHER agency that deals with the public health of Canadians, but one that isn't the Public Health Agency of Canada..."
More redundancy. More bloat. More money being spent on accomplishing nothing. Honestly, not a bad move for a government trying to bankrupt the country & screw over the next PM...
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Hmmm…if only there were already organizations to deal with public health and emergency readiness situations….
Even scarier? Copying ideas from the EU
Canada’s new pandemic preparedness agency aims to speed up vaccine development
This follows a similar move by the European Union to create an agency in 2021 that not only tries to prepare the continent for pandemics, but seeks to learn from mistakes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada’s new pandemic preparedness agency aims to speed up vaccine development - National | Globalnews.ca
Health Emergency Readiness Canada is tasked with boosting Canada's life-sciences sector and ensuring Canadians get faster access to vaccines.
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For decades, there has not been a discussion at the national level between all stakeholders, around disaster preparation. Last week, Ottawa hosted the first CEPCA convention and one of the key themes this year was discussing weather Canada needs another EM agency? The consensus is that anything new (agency, policy ect...) is a wasted effort until the nation builds a systemic whole-of-society disaster and emergency response system instead of this piecemeal approach. Another agency is simply creating another monster to feed.
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Where are the Health Emergency Readiness Canada (HERC) going to sit?
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No great fan of bureaucracies me - but how do you get all of society pulling in one direction without some sort of central co-ordination?
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Pandemic mitigation is an aim that probably merits a distinct national agency (thus not competing for resources with other parts of a super-agency) capable of focusing and co-operating with other national and international agencies. The question is whether government will shrink other less necessary and unnecessary federal pies in order to create a well-regulated agency rather than another self-perpetuating bureaucracy.
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Here’s an idea…why don’t we hold the Minister of Emergency Preparedness accountable to architect something?
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Disasters and emergencies begin and end locally. The discussion last week (CEPCA) recognised that over a few generations, we have shifted from a focus on individual responsibility, which led to strong personal resiliency, to our current dilemma where society is highly dependant on government intervention. With the discussions only starting, no magical solution was found in just a few days. Most agreed that reversing this dependency trend is desirable and will take a couple of generations to achieve. The hard work must be put in at all levels to effect change. Bernie Dribble (ON EMO Director) encourages all us to be 5 decibels louder and advocate for these societal changes toward disaster and emergency preparedness. Relying on "someone else" or a central coordination is the type of dependency which has brought us to this point.
Personally, I am terrified of the notion of another level of bureaucracy. It would simply swallow resources without physically accomplishing anything. Accepting the fact that some planning is needed, perhaps simply gathering the provincial CMO's together for as long as needed to create a Manops that would cover most eventualities along with a list of required items such as respirators and drug supplies. Once that is finished, shelve it and leave it alone except for an annual review to ensure that it remains up to date. The only full time people required would be those who ensure that none of those stored supplies become stale-dated.
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Here’s an idea…why don’t we hold the Minister of Emergency Preparedness accountable to architect something?
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What’s the Church’s current recommendation on food storage?
Throughout the history of the Church, there have been different apostolic recommendations and counsel on preparing your family for emergencies.
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Oh you are a funny one - the Three Stooges could do better than that guyHere’s an idea…why don’t we hold the Minister of Emergency Preparedness accountable to architect something?
Anybody else suspect this MIGHT end up being a very expensive boondoggle who's real purpose might be more money laundering & corrupt contracts being awarded to companies owned by the very people in government who decide such things?
That infrastructure bank has been up and running for a few years now, yet hasn't funded a single infrastructure project yet. Despite this, how many billions of dollars have flowed through those coffers?
(Or the firearms ban that managed to spend $45 million to buy back exactly 0 guns - recently revised to $76 million...)
I can already picture Larry Brock sitting in committee banging his head off a table because nobody will answer his questions, like "How did you spend $75 million hiring new staff members, yet end up with no staff members!?" Or asking why the head of the agency is a LPC's dog walker?
I can see it now...
That infrastructure bank has been up and running for a few years now, yet hasn't funded a single infrastructure project yet. Despite this, how many billions of dollars have flowed through those coffers?
(Or the firearms ban that managed to spend $45 million to buy back exactly 0 guns - recently revised to $76 million...)
I can already picture Larry Brock sitting in committee banging his head off a table because nobody will answer his questions, like "How did you spend $75 million hiring new staff members, yet end up with no staff members!?" Or asking why the head of the agency is a LPC's dog walker?
I can see it now...
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True enough, but I imagine the folks and local agencies of the southern Appalachia might be a tad overwhelmed right now.
There needs to be a hierarchy that guards itself against simply 'dumping upwards'. In Ontario, each municipality is required to have a Disaster Management Plan and is considered the entity of first responsibility. It make sense; they know the area, the people, the resources available locally. If an event exceeds its capacity, they can call the province (and the province can call the feds).
We need clear lanes of responsibility. The Town of Butt Creek is the local first responder entity, but I don't think they should be expected to stockpile PPE or buy a particularly expensive piece of equipment that would sit in a garage 'just in case'. At some level, there is a need to amass PPE, generators or whatever, or at least know how to get them. We need a cadre of trained or qualified people to do stuff. What we don't need is a bunch of bureaucrats who don't even have a safety vest writing papers on what everybody else should be doing.
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Most emergency responses have to start locally, where the situational knowledge is best.
Pandemics by definition are not local.
Pandemics by definition are not local.
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