The story behind N95 mask shortage in Canada

[MikePal]

This is the story behind the incompetence of the Government procurement program to ensure Canada would have N95 mask for our front line workers. Disgraceful that some of these people still have their jobs.

small snippet....worth the read to get the whole story...

Thousands of businesses came forward with offers to supply PPE like masks, gloves and gowns, flooding the inboxes of MPs and political staff — people who don't normally handle the finer details of procurement.

That was the context when the government of Canada rejected an offer from Honeywell, a major U.S. industrial conglomerate, to supply N95 masks to protect health workers on the front line. N95 respirators are designed and fitted to filter out the smallest airborne particles.

The emails reveal the government struggled to respond to an onslaught of correspondence from PPE brokers large and small. To break through, some major firms turned to well-connected lobbyists and government relations professionals to help.

In one email exchange from March 19, Sarah Goldfeder, a lobbyist at Earnscliffe, came forward with an offer from Honeywell.

The company — with billions of dollars in revenue and a long track record of producing respiratory masks and protective equipment — was offering a supply of N95 masks just days after Canada initiated an ordered shutdown of social and economic life as COVID-19 caseloads increased.

But the company was punted to an online portal, Goldfeder reported — the government's Buy and Sell platform. She said an offer of this magnitude needed a personal follow-up, not a generic web-based application for tenders.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/n95...ents-1.5910829

[greatwhite]

Our Liberal friends on here will claim somehow Harper caused it or make up some excuse for Trudeau being a lifetime screw ups.

But having helped elect this clown we can now show anyone involved with this government has blood on their hands.

This is the story behind the incompetence of the Government procurement program to ensure Canada would have N95 mask for our front line workers. Disgraceful that some of these people still have their jobs.

mall snippet....worth the read to get the whole story...



https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/n95...ents-1.5910829

[impact]

All by design Mike. God forbid we actually would have slowed down the spread of covid / influenza to stall the Great Reset.

[greatwhite]

Seems CNN and the Washington post are now reporting how poorly Trudeau has done. We will be making new around the world.
Were not even a first world county anymore were trying to get our vaccines from COVAX which was set up for poor countries and were begging India to help us.

I imagine this makes Liberals proud that Canada is doing so poorly.
Even if we get some vaccines mathematically it is impossible to Vaccinate the number Trudeau claims can be done by Sept. We would now need to Vaccinate 850,000 a week.

In reality we are looking at end of 2021 and most likely mid to late 2022, long after most countries are all done.