Trudeau was forced to go cap in hand to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, looking for more shots. Modi said he’d, “do his best” to get some to us. Right after he finished laughing.
Then there’s the government’s relationship – or lack of one – with drug companies. In a column last month in the National Post, Paul Lucas, former CEO with GlaxoSmithKline, pointed out that 10 years ago that company rapidly produced vaccines for Canada during the H1N1 epidemic. Since then, the government has made no effort to work with the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, investment moved from this country to the U.S., the U.K. and other jurisdictions. You know, the ones that now have vaccines.
“Successive Liberal governments, including this one, have created an unfavourable environment for investment and commercial success for innovative pharmaceutical companies in Canada,” Lucas said.
Instead, Trudeau put his faith in China for a vaccine, relying on the rogue nation that’s holding two Canadians hostage to bail us out.
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