Hours before Quebec announced the reinstatement of a provincewide curfew in December, which began the next day, emails obtained by Radio-Canada reveal the province’s head of public health was still looking for studies to justify the decision.
In an email timestamped 10:31 a.m. on Dec. 30, the assistant to former public health director Dr. Horacio Arruda solicited help from the province’s public health institute as well as a senior strategic medical advisor for Quebec Public Health to rationalize the curfew to reporters at a news conference later that day.
“Horacio would like you and your teams (!) to provide him with an argument in relation
