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Five years on: Tracing the costs of lockdowns
To date, no federal or provincial government in Canada has conducted the kind of comprehensive impact assessment required to justify lockdowns
Released: May 8, 2025
A new report from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms examines the immediate and long-term negative impacts of Covid lockdowns, including physical, social, and economic harms. It also underscores the lack of transparent, evidence-based analysis by governments to justify these measures.Â
The report details how policies introduced with the stated goal of saving lives came at an extraordinary cost to Canadians’ mental and physical health, access to healthcare, economic security, and civil liberties. Â