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The province’s mandatory mask mandate has been in place since July 2020, for a total of 21 consecutive months. Though still recommended in certain situations, some feel the province should be taking its time and not moving to lift the mask mandate so soon.

“People don’t really have a sense of why they should be doing this,” he said. “Obviously we know that the pandemic is out there, but on the one hand the government is saying we’re going to keep these measures in certain places. And on the other hand, they’re sort of getting rid of everything. […] There’s this contradiction at a global level,” explains Simon Bacon, professor in behavioural medicine at Concordia University.

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