Health Canada Unable to Locate Documents Related to Scrapped $22,000 Ventilators: Report

Health Canada said it was unable to locate documents related to the purchase of $22,000 ventilators later sold as scrap metal, which led to allegations from a Conservative MP that the omission is either “incompetence or corruption.” “I don’t understand why they would do this. It sounds like a shotgun approach to procurement,” Tory MP Cheryl Gallant told Blacklock’s Reporter. “Was it incompetence or corruption? Did the Public Health Agency lose track of these units? Were they unsuitable for use?” A constituent Ms. Gallant’s, paramedic Luke Halstead of Petawawa, Ont., bought dozens of the ventilators that were later auctioned as scrap metal by the Department of Public Works....