Canada leans heavily on China for personal protective equipment as pandemic-induced shortage continues

[shockedcanadian]

Imagine this, an entire nation being draped over a barrel by a ruthless, communist dictatorship. The entire world has allowed themselves to be exposed. It's sad and it will continue. We keep hearing our Premier in Ontario say "we won't ever be held hostage by foreign countries again for our needs". Let's see post-virus what happens.

I expect that we continue to lose our best talent, be it engineers, medical practitioners, entrepreneurs or even sales reps. Canada has been a graveyard for businesses, talent, civil liberties and justice. Now some are waking up, but they are helpless to change it. The covert police have destroyed our own Charter of Rights. Without it, everyone pays a price.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ppe-import-china-shortage-1.5552426

More than two months into the coronavirus pandemic, federal and provincial governments are using extraordinary measures to supply health-care workers with personal protective equipment, including letting them use expired masks.

And with more than 61,000 cases of COVID-19 coast to coast, and the country reaching the milestone of more than 4,000 deaths on Tuesday, supplies are just trickling in from overseas suppliers.

In March, Ottawa passed an interim order that allows masks, face shields and gowns to be imported and sold in Canada even if they do not meet Health Canada's pre-COVID-19 standards.

Health Canada hasn't responded to questions from CBC News about the ways in which it has relaxed its rules, but the order's description says that the products must still be "manufactured according to comparable standards."

The United States appears to be taking a similar approach. The U.S. Food and Drug administration says that "for the duration of the pandemic," it will allow the importation of KN95 masks, which are respirators manufactured according to Chinese standards.
As of April 30, Health Canada had ordered 1.8 billion units of PPE, from masks to gloves to gowns. Of the 36 devices approved so far under the order, 34 are manufacturers in China, including Wuhan Orient Honest International Trade Co., Shandong Zhushi Pharmaceutical Group Co., and Peek-a-Boo! I A See U!.

Ottawa has not said whether it has yet placed an order with any of these companies.

Much of the global supply of PPE comes from China.

 

[candycorn]

Imagine this, an entire nation being draped over a barrel by a ruthless, communist dictatorship. The entire world has allowed themselves to be exposed. It's sad and it will continue. We keep hearing our Premier in Ontario say "we won't ever be held hostage by foreign countries again for our needs". Let's see post-virus what happens.

I expect that we continue to lose our best talent, be it engineers, medical practitioners, entrepreneurs or even sales reps. Canada has been a graveyard for businesses, talent, civil liberties and justice. Now some are waking up, but they are helpless to change it. The covert police have destroyed our own Charter of Rights. Without it, everyone pays a price.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ppe-import-china-shortage-1.5552426

More than two months into the coronavirus pandemic, federal and provincial governments are using extraordinary measures to supply health-care workers with personal protective equipment, including letting them use expired masks.

And with more than 61,000 cases of COVID-19 coast to coast, and the country reaching the milestone of more than 4,000 deaths on Tuesday, supplies are just trickling in from overseas suppliers.

In March, Ottawa passed an interim order that allows masks, face shields and gowns to be imported and sold in Canada even if they do not meet Health Canada's pre-COVID-19 standards.

Health Canada hasn't responded to questions from CBC News about the ways in which it has relaxed its rules, but the order's description says that the products must still be "manufactured according to comparable standards."

The United States appears to be taking a similar approach. The U.S. Food and Drug administration says that "for the duration of the pandemic," it will allow the importation of KN95 masks, which are respirators manufactured according to Chinese standards.
As of April 30, Health Canada had ordered 1.8 billion units of PPE, from masks to gloves to gowns. Of the 36 devices approved so far under the order, 34 are manufacturers in China, including Wuhan Orient Honest International Trade Co., Shandong Zhushi Pharmaceutical Group Co., and Peek-a-Boo! I A See U!.

Ottawa has not said whether it has yet placed an order with any of these companies.

Much of the global supply of PPE comes from China.

Wow, Canada has a leader that acknowledges the shortage and tells the truth? Whats that like?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Imagine this, an entire nation being draped over a barrel by a ruthless, communist dictatorship. The entire world has allowed themselves to be exposed. It's sad and it will continue. We keep hearing our Premier in Ontario say "we won't ever be held hostage by foreign countries again for our needs". Let's see post-virus what happens.

I expect that we continue to lose our best talent, be it engineers, medical practitioners, entrepreneurs or even sales reps. Canada has been a graveyard for businesses, talent, civil liberties and justice. Now some are waking up, but they are helpless to change it. The covert police have destroyed our own Charter of Rights. Without it, everyone pays a price.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ppe-import-china-shortage-1.5552426

More than two months into the coronavirus pandemic, federal and provincial governments are using extraordinary measures to supply health-care workers with personal protective equipment, including letting them use expired masks.

And with more than 61,000 cases of COVID-19 coast to coast, and the country reaching the milestone of more than 4,000 deaths on Tuesday, supplies are just trickling in from overseas suppliers.

In March, Ottawa passed an interim order that allows masks, face shields and gowns to be imported and sold in Canada even if they do not meet Health Canada's pre-COVID-19 standards.

Health Canada hasn't responded to questions from CBC News about the ways in which it has relaxed its rules, but the order's description says that the products must still be "manufactured according to comparable standards."

The United States appears to be taking a similar approach. The U.S. Food and Drug administration says that "for the duration of the pandemic," it will allow the importation of KN95 masks, which are respirators manufactured according to Chinese standards.
As of April 30, Health Canada had ordered 1.8 billion units of PPE, from masks to gloves to gowns. Of the 36 devices approved so far under the order, 34 are manufacturers in China, including Wuhan Orient Honest International Trade Co., Shandong Zhushi Pharmaceutical Group Co., and Peek-a-Boo! I A See U!.

Ottawa has not said whether it has yet placed an order with any of these companies.

Much of the global supply of PPE comes from China.

Wow, Canada has a leader that acknowledges the shortage and tells the truth? Whats that like?

Nobody is saying we have shortages, only the media is. In fact, governments at all levels here aren't even talking about how dependent we are on China, they will hardly mention them by name. We had to throw out so many PPE from China as it was subpar to useless and even dangerous. We have no production here though, so we are at their mercy.

 

[Alexandre Fedorovski]

Imagine this, an entire nation being draped over a barrel by a ruthless, communist dictatorship. The entire world has allowed themselves to be exposed. It's sad and it will continue. We keep hearing our Premier in Ontario say "we won't ever be held hostage by foreign countries again for our needs". Let's see post-virus what happens.

I expect that we continue to lose our best talent, be it engineers, medical practitioners, entrepreneurs or even sales reps. Canada has been a graveyard for businesses, talent, civil liberties and justice. Now some are waking up, but they are helpless to change it. The covert police have destroyed our own Charter of Rights. Without it, everyone pays a price.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ppe-import-china-shortage-1.5552426

More than two months into the coronavirus pandemic, federal and provincial governments are using extraordinary measures to supply health-care workers with personal protective equipment, including letting them use expired masks.

And with more than 61,000 cases of COVID-19 coast to coast, and the country reaching the milestone of more than 4,000 deaths on Tuesday, supplies are just trickling in from overseas suppliers.

In March, Ottawa passed an interim order that allows masks, face shields and gowns to be imported and sold in Canada even if they do not meet Health Canada's pre-COVID-19 standards.

Health Canada hasn't responded to questions from CBC News about the ways in which it has relaxed its rules, but the order's description says that the products must still be "manufactured according to comparable standards."

The United States appears to be taking a similar approach. The U.S. Food and Drug administration says that "for the duration of the pandemic," it will allow the importation of KN95 masks, which are respirators manufactured according to Chinese standards.
As of April 30, Health Canada had ordered 1.8 billion units of PPE, from masks to gloves to gowns. Of the 36 devices approved so far under the order, 34 are manufacturers in China, including Wuhan Orient Honest International Trade Co., Shandong Zhushi Pharmaceutical Group Co., and Peek-a-Boo! I A See U!.

Ottawa has not said whether it has yet placed an order with any of these companies.

Much of the global supply of PPE comes from China.

Well, this is a tragic confirmation that the global model of the economic system, adopted by the so-called "democrats", leads to an absolute dead end