🇨🇦 Two dead donors, years of deficiencies, and Health Canada shrugs

Spanish pharma giant Grifols runs Canada's only major commercial plasma operation—17 clinics extracting bodily fluids from donors for profit. Two people died after donations in Winnipeg within months. Federal inspectors found deficiencies that persisted for years. Health Canada's response? Essentially nothing. This is what happens when you outsource critical health infrastructure to foreign corporations while your regulator plays lapdog instead of watchdog.

Grifols pays donors cash—a model banned in most of the developed world because it attracts the desperate and compromises safety. But in Trudeau's Canada, sovereignty and public health take a backseat to corporate convenience. Meanwhile, Canadians are the product being harvested and the government won't even pretend to care until bodies pile up. At least the Conservatives are asking questions, though that bar is now underground.

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