Canada’s once booming PPE industry is now ‘running on fumes.’ Why?
Irwin’s company went into receivership last summer. He could lose everything, including his home.
Sweeny now has 11 machines in his plant, a massive clean room, automated packaging and robots. The plant has the capacity to make upwards of 25 million masks a month and employ 60 people. But that isn’t happening right now.“The plant is idle,” Sweeny said, adding he wants no more platitudes from governments.Ontario launches new plan to prepare for health emergencies, includes PPE stockpile
“If the governments are never going to buy Canadian PPE, and you’ve asked all these companies to invest and develop all this stuff, then give them their money back,” Hunt said.What really upsets many companies, Hunt said, is the announcement by Trudeau and Ford in August 2020 that they were investing $47 million in 3M to produce N95 masks for the governments over the next five years.
Spokesman Colin Blachar said it had created a stockpile of PPE from Ontario manufacturers and that “93 per cent of the forecasted PPE for the next 18 months will be purchased from Ontario or Canadian-based manufacturers.”
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