As the Quebec government struggles to bring the COVID-19 outbreak in its troubled network of long-term care homes (CHSLDs) under control, the Canadian military has been sent in to help.
Dozens of army medics have been deployed at CHSLDs across the province in recent days, and Premier François Legault has since requested that even more be sent in to make up for the thousands of health-care workers missing from the front lines amid the pandemic.
Pierre Arcand, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ), told Global News Morning he thought it was about time. “I think he should have done it much earlier,” the Mont-Royal-Outremont MNA told Global’s Laura Casella via Skype. “We were getting calls from CIUSSSes all around Montreal, saying, ‘We need