Cornies: We Canadians are failing our health-care workers

Shortly before he retired from Western University, eminent historian Peter Neary wrote a paper for a Canadian Forces advisory council, in which he remarked: “To put on the uniform of one’s country – and this is as true today as it was in 1914 – is to make an extraordinary commitment: to put oneself at risk, as required, in the interests of the nation . . . Between those in uniform and the country they serve there is an implicit social covenant that must be honoured.” Read More