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COVID-19 |  When Ontario Acts and Quebec Waits
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COVID-19 | When Ontario Acts and Quebec Waits

Of the 432 million paid by the federal government to ensure a “safe return to class”, Quebec would have used only a tiny part of it to improve ventilation in schools, our colleague Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot recently taught us. Posted at 5:00 a.m. Ontario, for its part, deployed funds from Ottawa in the fall of 2020 to install 70,000 air purifiers in its classrooms. Which province made the best decision? The future may tell us. But this case is not unique and it is part of a trend. Since the start of the pandemic, Ontario has been rapidly adopting new t...