Early life
Burney was born in_Career
_In_the_civil_service
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In the civil service
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In later life, Burney began contributing his opinions in the national media. On 6 May 2020, he asked for a "full post-mortem" and specifically asked about the state of readiness of Canada before the pandemic began. He wanted to know whether the Chinese government concealed evidence of the outbreak in late 2019, and suggested an investigation of whether the WHO was complicit. He worried about the insolvency that waits next to the subsidy, and said there were ''"more people riding in the wagon than pulling it"''. On 14 May, he castigated the Trudeau government over its conduct of relations with China: ''"The litany of apologies and obsequiousness by Canada is one that only a lickspittle would salute."''Family
Burney's son Derek Burney Jr. was the president ofHonours
Burney was named an Officer of theNotes
References
*Burney, Derek. ''Getting It Done: A Memoir.'' Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. .External links
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