Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he has serious concerns about the World Health Organization and its relationship with the communist regime in China.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Wednesday he has serious concerns about the World Health Organization (WHO) and its relationship with the communist regime in China.
Scheer also said he has reservations about the agency’s track record during the pandemic, citing its initial claim that the virus did not spread easily between people, and its warning against closing borders to member states like China, as questionable advice given what we know now about the virus.
“We’ve got serious concerns about the accuracy of the information coming out of the WHO and it’s incumbent upon this government to explain why they have based so many of their decisions on the WHO,” Scheer said.
The WHO also advised against the use of non-medical masks by the general population, guidance that Canadian public health officials repeated for weeks — until they changed their position last week.
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Dr. Theresa Tam, the federal chief public health officer, now says wearing a mask could help slow the spread of COVID-19 by pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic people. She has said she’ll wear a mask in public when social distancing isn’t possible. Tam has served as an international expert on a number of WHO committees.
Based in part on WHO guidelines, the Canadian government also avoided closing its border to inbound foreign nationals for weeks — until an abrupt about-face in mid-March when it became clear such an action was crucial to stopping the influx of cases from abroad.
While caseloads spiked worldwide, the WHO waited until March 11 to declare COVID-19 a global pandemic.
“We’ve seen examples of how the communist, autocratic, human rights-ab