Ottawa Says COVID Ventilators Sold as Scrap Helped It ‘Understand’ Recycling Business

Ottawa Says COVID Ventilators Sold as Scrap Helped It ‘Understand’ Recycling Business
A patient is attached to a ventilator in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at a hospital in downtown Vancouver on April 21, 2020. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
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Ottawa says the brand new ventilators and parts it bought during the COVID-19 pandemic and then unloaded for as little as $6 were sold as scrap metal so the government could “further understand” the recycling business.

There was “one negotiated sale of four (4) ventilator samples (with conditions)” to recycling organizations in an effort to engage the industry and to “further understand constraints and considerations of recycling,” said a Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) document obtained through an access to information request by Blacklock’s Reporter and reviewed by The Epoch Times.