But We're Nearly Able to Produce All of Our Personal Protective Equipment, Right?

How reassuring:

The day after her co-worker died of the new coronavirus in April, Toronto long-term care home worker Karen Ellington says she and her colleagues finally got what they had been asking for: N95 respirator masks.

But, she said, there was a catch.

“We got one N95 and the statement (from the home) that was made was, ‘Don’t throw it away because we don’t know when you’ll be getting another one,’” Ellington told Global News.

“I think that’s maybe why everything spread as fast as it did, when it did. Because we didn’t have what we needed.”

I'll just leave this right here:

Health Minister Patty Hajdu said on Friday that responsibility for the depletion of pandemic supplies falls on provincial governments, telling senate that the Public Health Agency "isn't really in the business" of maintaining the stockpile.

According to Blacklock's Reporter, the national stockpile is the responsibility of the Public Health Agency and has been since the agency was created in 2004.

“The federal government isn’t really in the business of providing personal protective equipment for provinces and territories,” said Hajdu. “The Public Health Agency of Canada is a very small Agency. 

Successive rounds of governments have not made substantial investments in the Public Health Agency,” she continued. 

While Hajdu claims that the agency is "small," it had a budget of $675 million last year.