Talk politics.

Your first paragraph is definitely on-target. Ditto Health Canada back during the Harper years, from what little I know and remember. And I wonder how much damage Doug Ford was able to do as premier of Ontario specifically in his first couple of years before the Pandemic. Now, though, he seems to have had the fear of some kind of god - or, maybe, God Herself - put into him, so maybe he'll remember these months if enough of us are foolish enough to re-elect him.