Just because Trump messed up doesn't mean Trudeau's response was good. Trudeau's government was arguably as bad as, or probably worse than Trump's. They never closed the border. Even up to this instance. They also do not do 14 day mandatory quarantines. They were that incompetent and short-sighted that they thought it would be too harmful to the economy to shut the border, well look at it now: there are barely any flights anyways, and as a result of allowing the virus in, they damaged the economy extensively for years to come, much more than if they would have shut the border for a while. They did not even do testing at airports when even developing countries started doing that since January.

Canada's response was horrible. So were most countries'. The only countries who took common sense and appropriate timely measures were the likes of Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, New Zealand.

The common sense measures were/are to A) close the border to non essential travel B) enforce 14 day quarantines on anybody entering the country C) do an extreme domestic lockdown for 1-2 months.

Canada didn't do any of these, and isn't.

But I'm glad that at least now Trudeau has the basic common sense of saying don't open prematurely. He should not be praised for this... it is not something special to know/say, even a disabled baby antelope separated from its mother should have this level of basic logic to know/say this. Just because Trump, who is lower than said hypothetical antelope in the logic department, doesn't get it, that doesn't necessarily/automatically mean that another leader who does is doing something special by knowing it. It is like winning on playstation against your little brother, it doesn't necessarily mean you are good.