As a beautiful but unusual Canadian summer gives way to fall, we
want to share how we've fared over the past few months, both as
a country and at Stikeman Elliott as a firm.
Pandemic challenges
We recognize that Canada has been relatively fortunate so far.
In the spring, our New York and London colleagues kept us informed
about the serious outbreaks in the U.S. Northeast and parts of the
United Kingdom and continental Europe. Knowing that those regions
are home to many of the people that we work with every day, our
thoughts were with them during that difficult period, just as they
now are with our clients and friends in other
hard-hit areas.Canada has faced the same COVID-19 challenges
as the rest of the world, although the crisis has not been quite as
severe here as in some other countries. To date, its most striking
aspect has likely been a series of tragic outbreaks in long term
care facilities in the spring. Since those early days, other
infection clusters
