Your question deserves more than a 30-second response, but as my comments suggested, I think the health human resource crisis that has been unaddressed for years is a key. Second, we focused too much on acute care and not the most vulnerable setting, which was long-term care. This happened in province after province after province. We had empty hospitals, surgeries cancelled, and we really did not see the acute care system stretched. Meanwhile, long-term care was struggling to access PPE, struggling to have enough people working there, struggling to get resources. That was the biggest single factor in our national failure to protect seniors in care.
On May 11th, 2021. See this statement in context.