Public Health Agency of Canada needs more funding, resources, power

As NDP MP Don Davies told The Hill Times, governments over the years have been warned about the country’s “lack of emergency preparation,” and they’ve done nothing. Pointing to the federal auditor general’s 2010 report that found that public health officials were not maintaining a proper accounting of the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile, and other warnings following SARS, he described that as “scandalous."