Health Canada Can’t Find Documents for 7,500 Scrapped Ventilators Worth $22,000 Each

A ventilator waits to be used for a COVID-19 patient going into cardiac arrest at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. in this file photo. The Canadian Press/AP-John Minchillo

Health Canada says it can’t find records on the purchase of new $22,000 ventilators later sold as scrap metal for $6 apiece, leading to a Conservative MP’s allegations that the omission is either “incompetence or corruption.”

“I don’t understand why they would do this,” Tory MP Cheryl Gallant told Blacklock’s Reporter, adding, “It sounds like a shotgun approach to procurement.”