🇨🇦 Health Canada asleep until the pipeline breaks

A foreign plasma giant pauses collections in Canada only after Health Canada flags safety concerns. That is the punchline. Our regulators are forever sold as hyper-vigilant, yet somehow the system still drifts until a multinational taps the brakes itself. As reported, Grifols halted activity while officials review donor-screening and safety issues. Brilliant model: let Canada hollow out domestic resilience, lean on corporate middlemen, then act shocked when oversight looks reactive instead of sovereign.

This is the Trudeau-era template in miniature: outsource capacity, centralize talking points, and pretend dependence is sophistication. Blood products are not some abstract global supply-chain toy for managerial liberals and their bureaucratic priesthood. A serious country builds trusted domestic systems, enforces standards before problems surface, and stops treating public health like a branch office of borderless corporate governance. Canada keeps learning the same lesson the hard way because our ruling class is addicted to the cheap, post-national shortcut.

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