Canada ships COVID PPE to China

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Mar 20

No one can be more indignant and a spectacle of self-righteousness than a progressive caught with her pants down.  Such is the case with Canada’s Minster of Castigation and International Development Karina Gould.  Gould was defending Canada’s allocation of $50 million to help poor countries riddled with malaria, measles, and even Ebola, to cope with the coronavirus.

Oddly, China is on that list of poor countries needing Canada’s assistance.  In mid-February, after the WHO warned the world to batten down the hatches against the coming pandemic, the Trudeau government sent China sixteen tonnes of medical personal protective equipment from our own strategic stockpile, equipment we sorely need now.  China is the country where this equipment is made.  I wonder if China considers it a gift or a return for credit.

In a case of his left hand not knowing what his far-left hand is doing, Trudeau didn’t halt travelling from China to Canada until March 23^rd.  Besides sending China our medical PPE, we continued to accept, potentially, some of their coronavirus seedlings to care for.  We can’t be accused of racism or inhumanity in the midst of a crisis now, can we?

Minister Gould replied with righteous blather when asked to explain why Canada, with its $50 million grant money, was, in effect, increasing the number of bidders for the same supply of scarce resources.  All that does is drive up the price.  It’s all part of “our enlightened self-interest” assured Minister Gould, and we place ourselves at risk if we’re not thinking about the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, she says.

Speaking of the most vulnerable, Minister Gould’s deepest concern is found in her assurance that the allotment of money is not being diverted from “helping improve sexual and reproductive health of girls and women,” which is the verbose way of saying abortion.  Such is her “fierce commitment” to preserve development and humanitarian programs.  Minister Gould was not asked why continue paying for abortion when simply letting these pandemics rip gets the same job done free of charge.

The Trudeau government miscalculates a lot, but they are fierce in defending themselves, especially when they can feel that cold draft in the nether regions.
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