18 happy-happy joy-joy news releases from the provincial government on Thursday, triple the number issued each of the previous two days.
Among the "news":
1. An announcement that the province has finally completed a set of guidelines for health care on how to respond to a pandemic. No, it actually says more than "Treat it."
Among the floaters and other fairly obvious revelations from this bit of "news" is this gem is this quote from Faith Stratton: "These guidelines will prove tremendously valuable for our regional medical officers of health and front-line health care managers". The province's chief medical office is right. The guidelines will be useful.
But.
The real proof of the pudding of pandemic preparedness comes not in having lovely lists of things to do and how to do them. It comes from having people in place to perform with the bits and pieces of equipment they need.
Any chance they can have a newser on that substantive issue?
2. A raft of ACOA and province joint announcements. Those look suspiciously like the feds trying to continue the campaign they started last week to actually take credit for stuff they do. Then again, it is poll goosing time and maybe ACOA has a few questions in Don Mills' quarterly.
We know the provincial government does.
That's why they goose the polls.
And why Don Mills loves to talk up the stunning success of his client.
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