Nearly all 8,200 ventilators from Montreal firm scrapped by feds
Access To Information records show millions of dollars worth of ventilators bought from a Quebec contractor by Ottawa ended up as scrap metal, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The records say that of the 8,200 CAE ventilators delivered at taxpayers’ expense, 8,180, or 99% were “slated for sale as scrap metal.”
The documents didn’t say what the Public Health Agency did with the remaining 20 devices.
“I am glad we were able to support CAE (Inc. of Montreal),” said then-Industry Minister Navdeep Bains Minister Bains at the time.
