noooo.
listen: mr trudeau is the last person in the world that i would ask to defend a policy. he's just a bad actor. what he says is irrelevant.
but, in the end, the party is going to have a lot to answer for in pushing through these disastrous policies that are not only not supported by the basic science, but are actually explicitly contradicted by it.
so, you have a choice in who you want to believe here,
- decades of peer-reviewed science
- or justin trudeau's personal hunch, apparently as incredibly influenced by trumpism, on a politically populist level
you can pick your epistemology, here.
but, don't be surprised if i insult your intelligence if you pick the wrong choice.
as mentioned, i don't expect the border to re-open until after the next election, whenever it is. the party has painted itself into a corner, politically, it has nothing to do with the science (which very unambiguously argues against the efficacy of border closures, and even argues they're counter-productive), and nothing to do with whether it's been effective or not (and it clearly hasn't been - we're going to be the last country in the developed world out of this, and may get beat by the likes of india and mexico).