‘Bizarre’ fictional COVID-19 report, penned by Preston Manning, resurfaces on social media

The man Alberta is paying $253,000 to find out what went right – and wrong – with the province's pandemic response has already come to his own conclusions in a report published online last spring.

The report, posted online by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a think tank that has been tied to controversies involving Canada's residential school system and climate change denial, contains a fictional account of a review of the federal government's COVID-19 response.

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31 comments

  1. That sounds like the most rational assessment I’ve heard from anyone that’s ever been in govt. Concern that public health bureaucrats have grossly overstepped their mandate and abused the rights of Canadians? Absolutely right! No need for an extra $250k report. Oh, and real journalists are supposed to question authority, not do PR for the govt.

  2. I guess L. Ron Hubbard wasn’t answering the phone. Maybe they should get a vegan to pen a report on the Alberta beef industry?

    1. Have you looked at Italy’s long-running ISS extended reports yet? They’re freely and publicly available.

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