www.zerohedge.com Over the weekend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will not retaliate against the US for banning exports of crucial medical protective supplies shipments into Canada, after on Friday a major shipment of masks from Minnesota-based 3M to Canada was halted by US authorities as part of the Defense Production Act.
“We are not looking at retaliatory measures or measures that are punitive,” Trudeau said Saturday at a dire moment the Canadian health care system is feeling the same strain as the US. He did call the move a “mistake” and the Trump administration has since been unmoved.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s words, however, were more aggressive and blunt, explaining in so many words that essentially Washington’s ban on the exports puts lives in danger. This after European leaders likened similar measures and interventions impacting Germany and France to “modern piracy”.
Canadian Premier of Ontario @fordnation starts his statements today noting that the U.S. won't allow medical supplies into Canada and that it puts lives in danger. Imagine how deadly it is to blockade a country's access to medicine & supplies for years/decades. #TheBlockadeKills pic.twitter.com/aDjmncRVxn
— Camila (@camilateleSUR) April 6, 2020
“What I understand is we have 3 million masks that were stopped by U.S. officials,” Ford told a Monday press conference. Ford later indicated that some of the masks — up to 500,000 — have since been released and that should “buy the province a week” before health workers run out.
“Our supplies are strained right at this moment… We’re exhausting every avenue available to us,” the Ontario leader said. “The hard truth is our supplies in Ontario are getting very low.”
Shows great planning on the last corrupt Administration to re-stock our Shelves with all the equipment that was used on the last virus epidemic! Nobody talks about that! we were left with virtually bare Shelves of all of these critical devises that are in high demand today! Where did all that money go, and why is there so many mask Missing that were supposed to be available by the Service Worker’s Union??? And why didn’t these foreign country’s rebuild their stock also! New York is the best example of complete total ignorance when it came to protecting it’s Citizen’s from all types of Emergency s! look at any Democratic run City, State or Government, and the answer is the same, total Incompetence!
Not retaliate? Two reasons. One, the little potato knows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7BQbBl2HhM&feature=youtu.be
and two, one suspect the threat of annexation (1865-1871) still hangs over the head of that location known as Canada…. and Donald would be just the person to do it.