see, this has been understood the whole time.

the article doesn't really touch on it, but the canadian system of reporting has a lot of privacy restrictions built-in that can protect causes of death from becoming public for quite a while after it happens. quebec is always the caveat, when talking about canada. so, i keep arguing that the data is useless and it isn't worth seriously analyzing, and some of that is stating to come out in the wash.

the numbers for canada are going to be revised upwards, it's just a question of by how much.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/07/24/theres-a-death-gap-in-canadas-four-most-populous-provinces-if-covid-19-isnt-killing-these-people-what-is.html