LISTEN: Industry association warns federal government is still unprepared for Canada’s PPE need

By CityNews Ottawa

Posted Dec 16, 2021 06:25:00 PM.

Barry Hunt, president of the Canadian Association of PPE Manufacturers, says the federal government has not lived up to its commitment to secure domestic PPE supply chains in Canada, and are now caught flat-footed in the face of another winter of high COVID transmission and the Omicron variant.

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