It's Been A Year Since Trudeau Said Canada Wouldn't Be Back To Normal For At Least A Year

The PM said it would happen once Canada got a vaccine.
Senior Writer

It's been a year since Justin Trudeau said it would take a least a year for life to return to normal in Canada. 

On April 9, 2020, Trudeau said that "normality, as it was before, will not come back full-on until we get a vaccine."

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Speaking in French, he had mentioned that getting back to normal depended on vaccines, which were expected to take at least a year if not more to roll out.

Trudeau also said at the time that Canadians would have to stay vigilant for the coming year.

Now a year later, vaccine doses are being administered but the country is still dealing with COVID-19, which has caused Ontario to enter a shutdown and stay-at-home order and Alberta to move back into Step 1 of its reopening plan.

  • Senior Writer

    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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