How? By being over prudent? By still keeping an emergency state with 77 or so daily cases? By still keeping a mask mandate in the heat of summer with such case numbers while everyone everywhere is lifting it? By barely allowing peoples to see each other at last with crazy regulations, still having to dox ouselves if we want to eat in a restaurant, and other pletera of idiocy.
Im sorry but Quebec in particular (i followed it less elsewhere in Canada) has been TERRRUBLE when it comes to it. Covid is pretty much done and out in many US states, im not saying the disease is gone, but they accept to live with it, they lifted the restrictions, while here we still have a gazillion tons of them.
Canada is currently in the top 3 countries in the world for vaccination depending on what metric you look at
We had fewer deaths than anyone in the G7, probably G20.
There was an economic impact as there was in all countries but it was no worst than anywhere else.
Did Trudeau screw up CERB, hell ya. Did others countries screw up worst by not helping people, hell ya
Did we have more sacrifices ? Yes, and we lost less people because of them.
While you think we can go back to normal, other countries like England and Israel have had to bring back restrictions to deal with the new variants. Hospitals in unvaccinated states like Missouri are struggling again.
Are we being too cautious ?
I have a friend that needs exploratory surgery for what may turn out to be serious. He can't get it because hospitals have not recovered. He is scheduled for September. Hopefully that won't be too late. Hopefully a resurgence won't push it back further.
The only way a resurgence is coming back is if the people that can't think beyond themselves screw it up for the rest.