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Government spent $570 million on foreign-made sanitizer while Canadian companies produced for free

According to CBC, companies across Canada answered Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plea to help meet the hand sanitizer shortage in the spring. However, as these companies produced sanitizer at no-cost, they later learned that the government opted to purchase from foreign companies instead.

Of the $570 million, $252 million went to BYD Canada Co., a Chinese company with only a handful of employees in Canada.

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