This is amazing. We're headed into the second wave of a once in a century pandemic. Ont and Qc have been backstopped by the feds. Now here come the Cons with a motion to initiate a massive AUDIT of the public health response? Now? October 2020? https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/house/sitting-17/order-notice/page-5
Like, THIS is when you're going to tie up PHAC, Procurement, Health Canada, not to mention the companies the govt is working with to procure vaccines and tests, with what looks to be the audit from hell?

Really?
Because PHAC, Health Canada, and every other federal office/bureau/department isn't already hanging on by their fingernails trying to build systems, structures and responses to protect Canadians?

Now? Really?
You guys know the vaccine and test deals come with NDAs, right? You know this is about the best way you could have come up with to get the global biotech and vaccine community to start edging slowly away from Canada?
"Yeah Pete, we were going to do a vaccine deal with the Canadians but they've got this batshit crazy audit thing all of a sudden."
You know you'll have all the time in the world for inquiries, audits, egg throwing, dunk tanks...whatever floats your little boats, AFTER the 2nd pandemic wave? Right?
Is this government perfect: no.
Is ANY government perfect: no.
Is this the time to embark on an exercise to paralyze procurement agencies and health agencies by requiring them to produce mountains of documents to the exclusion of....I dunno...RESPONDING TO AN EFFING PANDEMIC? No.
We go now live to the Hypocri-cam: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1319654395781484549?s=20
Psst: Pierre...bro, if you want rapid approval of tests and vaccines and stuff, so we can know we're using stuff that works, maybe don't throttle the agencies that actually need to do this work?
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