PM COMPARES PAIN MEDICATION TO ORANGES

   Canada has been experiencing a nationwide shortage of children's pain medications for months, leaving parents scrambling to manage their children's fever and pain as rates of respiratory syncytial virus and influenza skyrocket.
  As Canada faces an ongoing shortage of children's medications, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn't know if ramping up domestic production of pharmaceuticals is the right approach to addressing the problem.
  "If we had a big orange shortage in Canada, people might be shouting, 'Okay, we need to make them more greenhouses so we can grow more oranges in Canada,'" the prime minister said.
  Canada's experience with the pandemic and vaccine procurement has raised questions about how much the country should rely on global supply chains for essential goods.
   Jillian Kohler, a professor at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy said the shortage of children's pain medication speaks to the country's "very problematic" dependence on sources outside Canada's borders and on the private sector.