Ottawa Says COVID Ventilators Sold as Scrap Helped It ‘Understand’ Recycling Business
“In order to deliver a safe product fast, we have paid for contingencies that we have not necessarily needed. We have custom-machined parts in Canada rather than ordering ready-made parts from overseas"
Ottawa says the brand new ventilators and parts it bought during the COVID-19 pandemic and then unloaded for as little as $6 were sold as scrap metal so it could “further understand” the recycling business.
There was “one negotiated sale of four (4) ventilator samples (with conditions)” to recycling organizations in an effort to engage the industry and to “further understand constraints and considerations of recycling,” said a Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) document obtained through an access to information request by Blacklock’s Reporter and reviewed by The Epoch Times. ---More...
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