PM pledges reforms after up to 2 million expired N95 masks destroyed cdnpoli
In 2012, there were two national warehouse sites and 11 regional ones in provinces. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, said last week there are now six sites.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says the stockpile has been accessed several times in the last 10 years including during the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, as well as during floods, wildfires and a tuberculosis outbreak in Salluit, Que., in 2018. Public Services and Procurement Minister Anita Anand said last week Canada had ordered about 145 million N95 respirators, and expected about two million of them to be on hospital sites by the end of last week. All of them were coming from China.Andrew Scheer rises during question period in the House of Commons on April 20, 2020 in Ottawa.
But Scheer Monday asked Trudeau twice about reports that three chartered planes from Canada sent to China to pick up medical equipment returned to the country empty Sunday. Trudeau did not deny the report, saying Canada, like other countries has struggled to get orders filled when the entire world is trying to buy the same equipment right now.
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