Trump’s Mask Threat Shows Why Canada Needs More Self-Sufficiency & Domestic Manufacturing

04/04/2020

With US President Donald Trump trying to stop 3M from sending N95 masks to Canada - despite the fact that Canada manufactures much of the pulp used for those masks - Canada is receiving yet another reminder that we need stronger domestic manufacturing and self-sufficiency.

This is something I've been saying for a long-time.

Canada simply cannot rely on any foreign country - even our close ally the US - when it comes to essentials.

It is human nature that - in a crisis - a country looks after their own people first. In fact, that's exactly how it should be.

With that in mind, it means Canada must be able to manufacture our own essential materials, and being reliant on supply chains in other countries is disastrous.

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