Does this mean that Canada can't afford genome sequencing? Or that they know that it's not worth buying the lab device that would allow it (if this is possible at all)?

Let's say Ottawa (federal level) or Alberta (provincial level) could "isolate" the virus, as it presumably happened with Illumina in the US. What would have been the legal consequences in Canada if they would have taken this step?

Somehow my gut feeling is that Mr. King forced the Queen (the whole legal system) to admit that it can't go behind the politicians' plans. Some things, when they are set in writing, do have the power of law and the legal system knows when they have to stop or else... The Canadian system is perhaps not marred completely by what plagues the American system: opinion/interpretation passed as science/law. In other words, constructivism.

Any thought on this topic would help, thanks. From anyone.