Posted on 04/04/2020 5:23:52 PM PDT by Jonty30
What is currently trending on Facebook, in Canada, is the lack of facemasks. They blame Trump for taking care of his country first.
My response to them has been to ask, "Why did Trudeau not take steps to address the shortage before the pandemic?"
OK so it’s like ny/la/chig thing.
Thanks
Why punish Idaho?
3 M has offices and warehousing in Canada. They are a big part of Canada’s supply chain. This was an order that was placed early into the pandemic and has a promised delivery date. Yesterday your President decided to stop our shipment because his staff didn’t have the foresight to order their own masks.
Obama depleted the supply for SARS and didn’t make the effort to restock. Trump is facing an emergency situation, thanks to the previous administration.
From what I understand, Trump is still permitting Canada to get masks, but only what was previously agreed to and any extra produced by 3M must go to America, until they are fully stocked.
It’s reasonable, imo.
Got any Links for verification purposes ?
Really?
Yes, for what I use and care for. I would only care to pay for emergency care. My expectation of insurance would not cover terminal illnesses or anything like that.
How is that costing you that much in Canada?
Because Trudeau is just like the average Dem - waste money on everything but planning and then blame someone else...
That is what the average Canadian is taxed to pay for it. It is not directly paid for through health premiums, not completely anyway.
Ah, I bet the average American is taxed even more through their Medicare payroll taxes and share of state and federal income taxes that go to Medicaid.
Probably time for Trump to put a massive tariff on Canadian use of our system!
From what I found, Americans are taxed about $2800 American to pay for Medicare.
Presumably that is just the half that employees pay, not the employer-paid half.
Plus, the total annual cost of Medicaid is $600B. Divide that by upwards of 150M taxpayers and that is another $4k a year.
This source has the same $600B for Medicaid costs and says actual annual Medicare costs are more than that, at $750B per year.
I think any Canadians comong over to mooch off our system ought to face about a 1000% tariff!
Sars was in 2003 during the Bush era. Are you saying no one reordered masks for 17 years.
https://www.ottawamatters.com/national-news/3m-pushes-back-on-trump-administration-order-to-stop-sending-n95-masks-to-canada
You can google 3M Canada if you don’t believe they are an international company.
Canada supplies the material to make the masks in St. Paul Minn. Obviously if we can’t safely rely on the US as a trading partner we will have to reopen our own manufacturing instead of supporting American manufacturing.
Lesson learned. We will not be put in this position again.
Sorry, H1N1.
Yes, nobody during Obama’s administration ordered masks.
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London-based 3M Canada, pulled into Donald Trump maelstrom, eyes medical-mask options
NORMAN DE BONO & JENNIFER BIEMAN
Updated: April 4, 2020
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Caught in the crossfire of a trade row between Canada and America, London-based 3M Canada is “looking at every possible way” to meet domestic demand for medical masks after President Donald Trump forced the company’s American factories to stop exporting the in-demand product.
As the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic continues to escalate, Trump on Friday signed an order directing his administration to stop the export of N-95 face masks – disposable masks that have the ability to block droplets and airborne particles – and other protective gear to other countries.
3M is a major manufacturer of the N-95 masks, which are an essential tool for front-line health care workers around the globe.
Saturday, the manufacturer’s Canadian arm, headquartered in London, told The Free Press it’s looking at ways to meet domestic demand.
“Our primary concern remains the safety of health-care workers and first responders during this crisis, and we are currently reviewing the specific details of the executive memorandum and looking at every possible way to meet domestic needs for Canada,” 3M Canada’s president Penny Wise said in a statement.
“We will continue to provide updated information as it becomes available.”
Both Canada and Latin America receive N-95 masks from 3M’s U.S. operations, the company said in a statement Friday.
“There are . . . significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to health-care workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators,” the company said in a statement.
“Ceasing all export of respirators produced in the United States would likely cause other countries to retaliate and do the same.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has insisted that Canadian and U.S. emissaries were in ongoing talks to keep goods, services and commerce moving in both directions across a border already closed to non-essential traffic.
A study by the World Trade Organization found that, in 2019, China, Germany and the U.S. together produced 40 per cent of all exports of personal protective equipment, which includes masks, hand soap, sanitizer and protective goggles — more than $15 billion worth last year in the case of the United States.
3M, based in St. Paul, Minn., is one of the largest U.S. providers of protective medical gear, second only to North Carolina-based conglomerate Honeywell, which has been expanding and retooling facilities across the continent to ramp up its N95 production.
The province has ordered millions of N95 masks but is also attempting to ramp up domestic production of the critical devices and other personal protective equipment, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said.
Ford expressed disapproval of Trump’s move at his daily briefing Saturday, highlighting the number of health care workers that cross the border in Windsor to work in U.S. hospitals.
“Just work with us. We’re stronger together than we are seperated,” he said.
– with files by the Canadian Press
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