That is my concern. If WHO and people working with it give the impression that we are legally bound, and therefore we did follow those recommendations, it actually did hurt Canadians' health.
If you look at South Korea and Taiwan, both faired far better than Canada. They imposed travel restrictions on February 4 and 7, which was contrary to what WHO was recommending, whereas Canada waited until March 16.
If you look at South Korea, they had 5.4 deaths per million. Taiwan had a total of only 7 deaths, whereas Canada has had 228 deaths per million by comparison. That's an abysmal statistic, wouldn't you say, for a first-world country?