Trudeau Responds to Allegation That COVID Test Kit Supplier With Billions in Contracts Edited Submitted Results

Published on December 22, 2023

Following a report alleging that an importer of rapid COVID-19 tests with billions in government contracts gave regulators incomplete data about the product’s accuracy in detecting the disease, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government will need to learn lessons to prepare for the next pandemic. “During the pandemic, we were doing everything we could in unprecedented ways to get as many different ways of keeping Canadians safe as we possibly could, whether it was on rapid tests, whether it was on procurement of PPE, whether it was on contracts for vaccines,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters on Dec. 21. “There’s no doubt that obviously lots of lessons to learn about things that worked really well, about things that we probably won’t be doing again in the next pandemic when it comes.”...

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