Yet another example of what happens when a bunch of politicians scream “emergency” and a gullible John Q. Public largely falls for it. This reminds me of a Seinfeld episode where Kramer tries to explain to Jerry what happens when a company makes a bad investment decision: “They just write it off, Jerry!”
Ontario wrote off more than one billion items of personal protective equipment at a cost of $1.4 billion since 2021 and is now burning expired products, the province’s auditor general found.
The province signed long-term contracts for PPE between October 2020 and April 2021 that locked it into buying 188 million surgical masks annually. Yet it only distributed 39 million of those masks last year, or 21 per cent.
“But the minister responsible for procurement said he has “no regrets” about how the government acted.”
Of course not. It’s no hair off of his fanny. Only in government can one royally screw up and not suffer. There will probably be promotions.
NDP feigns surprise.
“New Democrat Leader Marit Stiles called the auditor’s findings “absolutely bonkers.”” Probably because the Dippers could waste three times more standing on its head.
Mice like to make nests in pallets of masks.
Each box of 50 or 100 like a unit in a liberal housing project.
Does the fault lie with the politicians or those who voted them in?
I bet you there is a hospital or clinic within the province or just next door that are begging for the stuff
1) how does properly packaged PPE expire?
2) which crony got that deal?