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A vaccine reality check.
A THREAD:
Whenever a Con, like CPC health critic Mrs. Rempel-Garner, jumps up and down and screams about Trudeau's vaccine "failure", there one thing to keep in mind: the CPC drove our domestic vaccine capacity out of the country. 1/10 #cdnpoli #onpoli
A THREAD:
Whenever a Con, like CPC health critic Mrs. Rempel-Garner, jumps up and down and screams about Trudeau's vaccine "failure", there one thing to keep in mind: the CPC drove our domestic vaccine capacity out of the country. 1/10 #cdnpoli #onpoli
The Harper years were terrible for science in Canada. In addition to muzzling our federal scientists, the CPC also oversaw the hollowing out of virtually ALL of our domestic vaccine production capacity. 2/10
Much has been said about the sale of Connaught Labs, our publically owned, world-class vaccine labs, but that's just the start of Conservative malfeasance vis-a-vis vaccines. 3/10 https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/03/11/the-public-lab-that-could-have-helped-fight-covid-19-pandemic.html
In 2012, the first full year of Stephen Harper's majority government, British drugmaker AstraZeneca announced plans to cut costs by closing its Quebec research & development facility, eliminating 132 jobs. 4/10 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/astrazeneca-cuts-132-jobs-shuts-montreal-facility-1.1221076
At the same time as AstraZeneca announced its closures, Johnson & Johnson also announced the closure of their Quebec facilities. 2012 was not a good year. 5/10 https://financialpost.com/news/economy/jj-announces-closure-of-montreal-research-centre
In late 2005, early 2006, Merck also shuttered its Canadian operation. 6/10 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/merck-to-close-kirkland-plant-1.523088#
A few years after that, Merck closed even more Canadian R&D and manufacturing facilities. 7/10 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/merck-cutbacks-claim-montreal-research-facility/article1386769/
Are you sensing a trend here yet? Because you should be. During the time that Stephen Harper and the CPC, including Mrs. Rempel-Garner, were in power, Canada lost virtually 100% of our vaccine manufacturing capacity. 8/10
They are now outraged that Trudeau hasn't managed to fix in 5 years what the CPC destroyed over a decade. Why is it that Liberals are always held to account for not cleaning up Conservative messes fast enough? Then we're told to re-elect the same party that made the mess. 9/10
Look folks, I'd rather not be writing these threads. I'd rather that our right-wing politicians showed a little contrition and simply admitted & accepted their part in this fiasco, but that, as always, is a bridge too far for the CPC and their rage-addicted base. 10/10
