Prime Minister’s remarks updating Canadians on Canada’s Plan to Mobilize Industry to fight COVID-19 — June 9, 2020
Over the past few months, our government has helped companies re-tool their manufacturing facilities and massively scale-up production to meet the demands of this crisis.
And I want to thank every entrepreneur and every worker who stepped up to contribute to this fight.
As we start to reopen and some people head back to work, the need for personal protective equipment and other essential supplies like hand sanitizer and disinfectant will continue to grow.
And we’re making sure we’re ready for that.
On Saturday, a ship carrying 160,000 litres of hand sanitizer arrived in Vancouver and we’re expecting seven more ships with hand sanitizer in the coming days.
We also have almost 1 million face shields and more than 7 million pairs of gloves on their way to the provinces and territories.
According to Blacklocks (paywalled) there were no ships, and the actual number of gloves was 600. Shiny just … made it all up.
More: “SNC-Lavalin always lands butter side up, don’t they? … I’m sorry, are you getting upset now?” @steeletalk and Blacklock’s Reporter on $150M in pandemic supplies nobody asked for.
Update @brianlilley – Big news requires big answers. The doses of the AZ vaccine we will get this week expire on April 2 according to multiple sources. Future doses will expire in June. Meaning provinces need to rush this vaccine out even as federal advisory group says limit use to under 65.