A person wears personal protective equipment, which includes an N95 respirator mask and nitrile gloves. As the pandemic began in March 2020, Hunt says Justin Trudeau called on Canadian entrepreneurs to fill a void in domestic personal protective equipment production. Hunt's company was among the many Canadian manufacturers that stepped up. So that was done simultaneously with the call to action for Canadian manufacturers to stand up and create a new industry ... and the market is flooded," said Hunt. "It's incomprehensible to me that two years into this, that we should still be sourcing PPE products from China."

Source: CBC News December 15, 2021 09:21 UTC